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...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...
Radek, the man who did it all, makes no effort to avoid Maigret, who soon develops a strong suspicion that he is the actual killer. But since Maigret has no 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...
...French provincial town suddenly everybody is happy and everything makes sense: the millionaire, for once, doesn't win the lottery or the mother superior the motorcycle. A horrified government inspector arrives to investigate such an unseemly state of affairs, discovers something worse-a pretty young schoolteacher who not only has her own whimsical version of the facts of life, but is seeking the facts of death from a ghost with whom she has romantic rendezvous. The inspector tries in vain to exorcise the ghost, who refuses to vanish until he notices the girl unconsciously responding to a flesh-&-blood...
...symbolism than it does story. But The Enchanted is saved from any allegorical pallor or patness, from any insistent contrast of illusion with reality (e.g., romantic yearnings for the moon with realistic cultivation of gardens) by its doubling back on itself and by its gay, vigilant irony. Through the inspector, Giraudoux pokes merciless fun at literal-mindedness, practical wisdom, bureaucratic palaver. Yet he knows, and expresses with the sad sparkle of his wit, that man needs feet even more than wings, and must accept reality to survive. But there is yet another turn of the wheel: man need neither flee...
With all its faults, The Inspector General gives free play to Danny's superbly controlled mugging and his triphammer tongue, which rattles through some first-rate lyrics by his wife, Associate Producer Sylvia Fine...