Showing posts with label Georges Simenon. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Born on this day – Georges Simenon:



Georges Simenon


Writer

February 12 or 13, 1903 – September 4, 1989

Credits:

Books:

Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett / Pietr the Latvian (1931); Maigret Meets a Milord / The Carter of ‘La Providence’ (1931); The Death of Monsieur Gallet / The Late Monsieur Gallet / Maigret Stonewalled (1931); The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien / The Crime of Inspector Maigret / Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets (1931); A Battle of Nerves / A Man’s Head / Maigret Bides His Time / The Patience of Maigret / Maigret’s Patience (1931); The Yellow Dog / Maigret and the Concarneau Murders (1931); Maigret at the Crossroads / The Night at the Crossroads (1931); Maigret in Holland / A Crime in Holland (1931); The Sailors’ Rendezvous / Maigret Answers a Plea / The Grand Banks Café (1931); The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin / Maigret At the Gai-Moulin (1931); Maigret and the Tavern by the Seine / The Two-Penny Bar (1931); The Shadow Puppet / Maigret Mystified (1932); Maigret Goes Home / The Saint-Fiacre Affair / Maigret on Home Ground / Maigret and the Countess (1932); Maigret and the Flemish Shop / The Flemish House (1932); Maigret and the Death of a Harbor-Master / Misty Harbour / Maigret and Monsieur Labbe (1932); The Madman of Bergerac (1932); Liberty Bar / Maigret on the Riviera (1932); Lock No. 1 / The Lock at Charenton (1933); Maigret / Maigret Returns (1934); The Cellars of the Majestic / Maigret and the Hotel Majestic (1942); The Judge’s House / Maigret in Exile (1942); Maigret and the Spinster / Cécile is Dead (1942); Maigret and the Fortuneteller / To Any Lengths / Signed, Picpus (1944); Félicie / Maigret and the Toy Village (1944); Inspector Cadaver / Maigret’s Rival (1944); Maigret Gets Angry / Maigret in Retirement (1947); Maigret in New York / Maigret in New York’s Underworld (1947); Maigret’s Holiday / A Summer Holiday / No Vacation for Maigret (1948); Maigret’s Dead Man / Maigret’s Special Murder (1948); Maigret’s First Case (1949); My Friend Maigret / The Methods of Maigret (1949); Maigret at the Coroner’s / Maigret and the Coroner (1949); Maigret and the Old Lady (1950); Madame Maigret’s Own Case / The Friend of Madame Maigret / Madame Maigret’s Friend (1950); Maigret’s Memoirs (1951); Maigret in Montmartre / Maigret and the Strangled Stripper / Maigret at Picratt’s (1951); Maigret Takes a Room / Maigret Rents a Room (1951); Maigret and the Burglar’s Wife / Maigret and the Tall Woman (1951); Maigret and the Gangsters / Inspector Maigret and the Killers / Maigret, Lognon and the Gangsters (1952); Maigret’s Revolver (1952); Maigret and the Man on the Bench / Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard (1953); Maigret Afraid / Maigret Is Afraid (1953); Maigret’s Mistake (1953); Maigret Goes to School (1954); Maigret and the Calame Report / Maigret and the Minister (1954); Maigret and the Dead Girl / Maigret and the Young Girl (1954); Maigret and the Headless Corpse (1955); Maigret Sets a Trap (1955); Maigret’s Failure (1956); Maigret Enjoys Himself / Maigret’s Little Joke / None of Maigret’s Business (1957); Maigret Travels / Maigret and the Millionaires (1958); Maigret Has Scruples / Maigret’s Doubts (1958); Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses (1959); Maigret’s Secret / Maigret Has Doubts (1959); Maigret in Court (1960); Maigret and the Old People / Maigret in Society (1960); Maigret and the Idle Burglar / Maigret and the Lazy Burglar (1961); Maigret and the Black Sheep / Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse (1962); Maigret and the Saturday Caller (1962); Maigret and the Tramp / Maigret and the Dosser / Maigret and the Bum (1963); Maigret’s Fury / Maigret Loses His Temper / Maigret’s Anger (1963); Maigret and the Ghost / Maigret and the Apparition (1964); Maigret on the Defensive / Maigret Holds His Own / Maigret Defends Himself (1964); Maigret and the Nahour Case (1966); Maigret and the Pickpocket / Maigret’s Pickpocket (1967); Maigret in Vichy / Maigret Takes the Waters (1968); Maigret Hesitates (1968); Maigret’s Boyhood Friend / Maigret’s Childhood Friend (1968); Maigret and the Killer (1969); Maigret and the Wine Merchant (1970); Maigret and the Madwoman / Maigret’s Madwoman (1970); Maigret and the Loner (1971); Maigret and the Informer / Maigret and the Flea (1972); Maigret and Monsieur Charles (1973); Maigret’s Pipe: Seventeen Stories (1945); Maigret’s Christmas (1976); The Girl with a Squint (1931); The Engagement (1933); Tropic Moon (1933); The Window Over the Way (1933); The Lodger (1934); The Long Exile (1935); Donadieu’s Will (1936); The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1938); Girl In Waiting (1938); Three Crimes (1938); The Strangers in the House (1940); The Widow (1942); The Truth About Bebe Donge (1942); Across the Street (1942); The Suspect (1944); Monsieur Monde Vanishes (1945); Three Bedrooms in Manhattan (1946); Act of Passion (1946); The Mahé Circle (1946); Death of a Nobody (1947); Pedigree (1948); The Snow Was Dirty (1948); Magnet of Doom (1948); The Bottom Of The Bottle (1949); Four Days in a Lifetime (1949); The Pitards (1949); Strange Inheritance (1950); The Heart of a Man (1950); A New Lease On Life (1951); The Burgomaster of Furnes (1952); Escape in Vain (1952); Havoc by Accident (1952); On the danger line (1952); Belle (1952); In Two Latitudes (1952); The Trial of Bebe Donge (1952); Dirty Snow (1953); Red Lights (1953); The Iron Staircase (1953); The Watchmaker of Everton (1954); The Clockmaker (1954); Big Bob (1954); The Accomplices (1955); The Rules of the Game (1955); The Burial of Monsieur Bouvet (1955); The Fugitive (1955); A Sense of Guilt (1955); The Little Man From Archangel (1956); The Stowaway (1957); Sunday (1958); The President (1958); The Son (1958); The Widower (1959); The Grandmother (1959); The Negro (1959); Young Cardinaud (1959); The Blue Room (1960); Betty (1960); Justice (1960); The Family Lie (1960); The Train (1961); Striptease (1961); Poisoned Relations (1961); The hatter’s ghosts (1961); The Door (1962); The House on Quai Notre Dame (1962); The Others (1962); The Bells of Bicetre (1963); The Magician (1963); Inquest on Bouvet (1963); The Man With the Little Dog (1964); The Venice Train (1965); The Survivors (1965); Venice Train (1965); Black Rain (1965); Ticket of Leave (1965); The Cat (1966); The Old Man Dies (1966); Old Man Dies (1966); The Mouse (1966); Fate of the Malous (1966); The Little Saint (1967); The Brothers Rico (1967); The Reckoning (1967); The neighbours (1968); The Prison (1968); The Premier (1968); The confessional (1968); The Patient (1968); The Witnesses (1968); Uncle Charles Has Locked Himself in (1969); Uncle Charles (1969); November (1970); The Rich Man (1970); Enigmas (1970); The Glass Cage (1971); The Innocents (1972); The Disappearance Of Odile (1972); Magician (1974); The Girl in His Past (1976); The Nightclub (1977); The White Horse Inn (1979); The Little Doctor (1981); The Outlaw (1987); The Murderer (2013); The Hand (2016); Simenon’s Paris (1970); When I Was Old (1971); Letter to My Mother (1976); Intimate Memoirs: Including Marie-Jo’s Book (1981); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); Nine Detective Stories (1964); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1989); Murder Intercontinental (1996); The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000); Murder On The Railways (2003); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004).

Movies and television:

A Life in the Balance (1955); A Man’s Head (1933); A sápadt demon (1989); Abécédaire du polar (1999); Adela (2000); Afera Saint-Fiacre (1963); Afternoon Theatre (1976); Annette et la dame blonde (1942); Antoine et Julie (1981); Apostrophes (1981); Armchair Cinema (1974); Aujourd’hui Madame (1971); Barrio (1947); BBC Play of the Month (1969); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1959); Bellas Tod (1979); Belle (2024); Betty (1992); Bibliothèque de poche (1967); Blackballed (2015); Bratya Riko (1980); Brelan d’as / Segment: Le Témoignage d’un enfant de choeur (1952); Cecile Is Dead (1944); Ceux de la soif (1989); Chabrol, l’anticonformiste (2019); Cinépanorama (1957); Cop-Out (1967); Crime impuni (1991); Danger (1951); Das zweite Leben (1990); De burgemeester van Veurne (1984); De weduwnaar (1991); Der kleine Doktor (1974); Der Mann aus London (1971); Der Mörder (1979); Dernier refuge (1947); Die Katze (2007); Die Komplizen (1985); Die Stunde des Leon Bisquet (1986); Die Unbekannten im eigenen Haus (1985); Ein anderer Liebhaber (1990); Els De Davant/Los De Enfrente (1993); Enter Inspector Maigret (1966); Equator (1983); Es gibt noch Haselnuß-Sträucher (1983); Federico Fellini - un autoritratto ritrovato (2000); Fellini, Simenon - Con profonda simpatia e sincera gratitudine (2021); Forbidden Fruit (1952); Het spoor van de Hollander (1968); Histoires de fiction (2004); Il était une fois... (2009); Il y a encore des noisetiers (1978); In All Innocence (1998); In Case of Bad Luck (2010); Inspector Bellamy (2009); Inspector Maigret (1958); Jusqu’à l’Enfer (2009); La Californie (2006); La Chambre (1961); La chasse aux vedettes (1961); La grande librairie (2022); La maison des sept jeunes filles (1942); La maison du canal (2003); La Marie du Port (1950); La mort d’Auguste (2015); La mort de Belle (1961); La nuit du livre sur France 5 (2007); La tête haute (2005); L’aîné des Ferchaux (2001); L’altro Simenon (1979); Le baron de l’écluse (1960); Le bateau d’Émile (1962); Le blanc à lunettes (1995); Le cas Simenon (2003); Le Chat (1971); Le chien jaune (1932); Le crime de monsieur Stil (1989–1995); Le dernier refuge (1940); Le grand échiquier (1972); Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (1964–1972); Le petit docteur (1986); Le président (1961); Le sang à la tête (1956); Le suspect (1989); Le voyageur de la Toussaint (1943 / 2007); L’enterrement de Monsieur Bouvet (1980); Léonard de Vinci: La manière moderne (2019); Les anneaux de Bicêtre (1977); Les caves du Majestic (1945); Les clients d’Avrenos (1996); Les complices (1999 / 2013); Les dossiers de l’agence O (1968); Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1967–1990); Les gens de lettres (1960); Les gens d’en face (1993); Les innocents (2006); L’étoile du Nord (1982); L’heure Simenon (1986–1988); L’homme au petit chien (1979); L’Homme de Londres (1943); Liberty Bar (1960); L’invité de FR3 (1981); L’invité du dimanche (1968); Long cours (1996); L’ours en peluche (1982); Love Is My Profession (1958); Madelen, elle est tellement tout ça (2020); Madrid, 1987 (2011); Magnet of Doom (1963); Maigret (1960–1963 / 1964–1969 / 1988 / 1992–1993 / 2004 / 2016–2017 / 2022); Maigret à Pigalle (1966); Maigret a smutný Alfréd (1966); Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959); Maigret at the Minister (1987); Maigret dirige l’enquête (1956); Maigret et la grande perche (1964 / 1991–2004); Maigret Simenon, le discours de la méthode (2003); Maigret voit rouge (1963); Midnight Episode (1950); Midnight in Paris (1942); Monitor (1959); Monsieur Hire (1989); Monsieur Joseph (2007); Monsieur Monde Makes His Escape (2004); Night at the Crossroads (1932); Niji no aru heya (1988); Noir sur blanc (1979–1983); On verra demain: Excursion en procrasti-nation (2019); Op straffe des doods (1970); Panique (1946); Pariser Journal (1968); Picpus (1943); Portrait souvenir (1960–1963); Premier Plan (1959–1963); Quartier nègre (1990); Quatuor (1956); Red Lights (2004); Reifenwechsel (1983); Rembob’Ina (2020–2022); Rückfahrt von Venedig (1973); Sedm krízku (1983); Sette piccole croci (1957); Shabab Yahtarek (1972); Simenon (1959); Simenon et l’affaire du cinema (2020); Simenon, écrivain photographe (2001); Smert Sesili (1970); Sonntag (1985); Sono te ni noru na (1958); Sous peine de mort (Unter Todesstrafe) (1960); Stranger in the House (1992 / 1997); Strangers in the House (1942); Studio One (1952–1953); Suspense (1952); Tangier Cop (1997); Telescope (1963); Television Theater (1958–1975); Temptation Harbor (1947); The Blue Room (2002 / 2014); The Bottom of the Bottle (1956); The Brothers Rico (1957); The Clockmaker (1974); The Family Rico (1972); The Green Shutters (2022); The Hatter’s Ghost (1982); The Iron Stairs (2013); The Last Train (1973); The Man from London (2007); The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949); The Paris Express (1952); The Price of Head (1992); The Snow Was Black (1954); The South Bank Show (1978); The Stowaway (1958); The Suspect (1966); The Teddy Bear (1994); The Train (1972); The Trap (1950); The Truth About Bebe Donge (1952); The Web (1950); The Widow Couderc (1971); This Is Your Life (1962); Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965); Tokyo Megure Keishi (1978); Tout (ou presque) sur Maigret (2009); Treffpunkte (1971); Versión española (2001); Viela, Rua Sem Sol (1947); Vzpurní svedkové (1983); Yajû no Fukkatsu (1969); Zalozhniki strakha (1994).


Sunday, September 1, 2024

September in movie history - The Brothers Rico (1957)


The Brothers Rico

directed by Phil Karlson,

written by Lewis Meltzer and Ben Perry,

based on a story by Georges Simenon,

was released in the United States in September 1957.

Exact release date unknown.

Music by George Duning.

Cast:
William Bishop, Robert Ivers, Georgann Johnson, Yvette Vickers, Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant, Larry Gates, James Darren, Argentina Brunetti, Lamont Johnson, Harry Bellaver, Paul Picerni, Paul Dubov, Rudy Bond, Richard Bakalyan, William Phipps.