Le Chien jaune (1932) - film review

In the port of Concarneau, four friends become the target of an unknown assailant.  One of the men is shot, another is abducted and the third is poisoned. On each occasion the appearance of a yellow-coated dog presages the next assault.  Suspecting he may be next on the killer’s list, Dr Ernest Michoux is taken into police custody, whilst Commissioner Maigret investigates...

Two other Maigret films were made in the same year, each with different actors playing the role of the pipe-smoking sleuth.  Shortly, after Le Chien jaune, Pierre Renoir took the part of Maigret in Jean Renoir’s La Nuit carrefour (1932).  Then, in Julien Duvivier’s La Tête d’un homme (1933), the sublime Harry Baur showed his well-meaning predecessors how the part of Maigret should have been played.  Since then, the great detective has been portrayed by well over a dozen actors in numerous film and television adaptations.

© James Travers 2003

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