Word: eiffel
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Like the Eiffel Tower. Today Picasso's own face is leathery, seamed and wrinkled, illuminated by big dark eyes which sometimes sparkle but more often stare off into the distance. He is old and fat, but still powerful: his chest and belly, bristling with white, goatlike hairs, are mahogany-tanned. At 68, he still dominates the whole canvas of modern...
...adopted France, Spanish-born Pablo Picasso is as much of an institution as the Eiffel Tower or the Grand-Guignol. His ideas, his loves and his wisecracks are as faithfully reported as the goings-on of any movie star. In the rest of the world he is almost as well known. His pictures hang in the world's most famed museums, and fetch prices as high as $50,000. Almost anywhere the mere mention of his name is enough to start a boiling controversy...
...intoxicating background of a 200-proof, Ansco-color Paris, some superior acting, and a thrilling interpretation of George Simenon's inscrutable Inspector Maigret, place "The Man on the Eiffel Tower" among Hollywood's best all-time mysteries...
...evidence whatsoever, Radek revels in taunting the inspector by all but admitting the murder. Radek, meanwhile, has collected 1,000,000 francs for the job from the impatient heir of the now disemboweled murder victim. You see plenty of Paris in the daytime from the top of the Eiffel tower; now you see fully as much of it at night, as the camera and Maigret follow Radek on a tour of all the local hotspots while he generously unloads his ill-gotten loot. The movie's best scene takes place in one of these lush Pigalle bistros, as a dozen...
Early in the film, as Maigret suffers Radek's taunts at the Eiffel Tower restaurant, you get the upsetting impression that Radek would like to do nothing better than hurl himself from the tower to show his scorn for humanity. Despite numerous old Hollywood traditions, Radek does not jump, thereby supplying one of the film's pleasantest surprises. He comes breathlessly close, however, in a series of amazing shots that will make you wonder whether or not Tone and Meredith actually did clamber all over this maze of girders. How Maigret bloodlessly outwits Radek proves a vastly satisfying...