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Classic crime drama based on the novel by Georges Simenon. Claude Rains play Kees Popinga, a Dutchman who is infatuated with a Parisian girl, Michele Rozier (Marta Toren).
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: A film based on jealousy and infatuation. De Koster's obsession with Parisian girl Michelle leads him to strip Popinga's company clean of money. From this revelation Popinga pursues him and it leads to De Koster's death. Popinga makes off to Paris with what money he got from De Koster but has the police in close pursuit. ...The Man Who Watched Trains Go By ( The Paris Express )
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By The CinemaScope Cat
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In the Netherlands, after he catches his boss (Herbert Lom) embezzling the company's funds and running off to Paris to be with his mistress (Marta Toren), the factory's drab, colorless and very much married bookkeeper (Claude Rains) confronts him and Lom is accidentally killed. With the police in pursuit, Rains absconds with the money and runs off to Paris and seeks out Toren with whom he's become infatuated. Based on the novel by mystery writer Georges Simenon, it's the oldest story in the world, that of the mousy married man leading a respectable but dull life and the money hungry femme fatale who gets her clutches in him. I suppose Lang's SCARLET STREET is the most memorable of the lot. However, unlike Robinson, it's hard to sympathize with Rains as he's rather dim witted and too willing a dupe and Toren's femme fatale is blatantly obvious and doesn't bother to hide it and he whimpers after her. The ending is pretty obvious as there's nowhere for the story to go. The film has a velvety Technicolor palette courtesy of Otto Heller (PEEPING TOM) and there's a wonderful score by Benjamin Frankel. With a young Anouk Aimee, Marius Goring, Ferdy Mayne, Eric Pohlmann and Felix Aylmer.
The Metrodome DVD from Great Britain is a vivid and colorful transfer in its proper 1.33 aspect ratio.
The Metrodome DVD from Great Britain is a vivid and colorful transfer in its proper 1.33 aspect ratio.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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Kees Popinga (Claude Rains) is an uninteresting man who has been senior clerk with the same firm for 18 years. When police inspector Lucas (Marius Goring) turns up to question his boss Julius de Koster (Herbert Lom) about money laundering, it sets off a chain of events which sees Kees travelling to Paris with a suitcase of the firm's money to live out his fantasy. De Koster has drowned and Lucas is investigating the case. For the rest of the film, he pursues Kees who goes to De Koster's Parisien lover Michele (Marta Toren) in order to take her away with him for some excitement in life. However, she is after the money from him so that she can take off with her lover Louis (Ferdy Mayne). She protects Kees, who has hidden the money, from Lucas so that she can get hold of the money herself........how do things work out?........How will Kees's rigid moral code of integrity and loyalty cope with betrayal..?...
Its a well acted film, my favourite character being Marius Goring who plays a sympathetic policeman who genuinely cares about Kees and wants to protect him. The colour adds to the spectacle and its an enjoyable film......... It was nice to see that even boring people have got some cunning inside them!
Its a well acted film, my favourite character being Marius Goring who plays a sympathetic policeman who genuinely cares about Kees and wants to protect him. The colour adds to the spectacle and its an enjoyable film......... It was nice to see that even boring people have got some cunning inside them!
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By W. Hamilton
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This little-known (unknown previously to this viewer) Technicolour 1952 drama has the perennial supporting actor Claude Rains in the lead of a story based on a novel by the creator of Maigret the detective, Georges Simenon. His female co-star is Marta Toren, the excellent Swedish actress who sadly died a few years after making this. The film is well above average - and rates 5 stars for me because it comes as such a surprise. Not just because of the quality of the people involved - the cast are uniformly convincing and the direction is deft throughout - but because it is not better known. The story is unusual and suspenseful, the dialogue intelligent and natural, and the key plot point - a policeman trying to stop a would-be criminal condemn himself - nicely turned. Anyone who has admired Claude Rains in big name pictures, down the billing, will see confirmation of his great abilities as a character actor in this performance, given in the latter years of his fine career. Well worth owning.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Time Out!
Sadly, I have to agree with your two star reviewer, L. E. Metcalfe, on this one. I say sadly because little about the film deserves actors of the calibre of Goring, Lom and Raines. Read more
Published 14 days ago by Wilberfalse
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Oh dear, oh dear!
I bought this because there were so many favourable reviews here, but I have just watched it and can only assume that these other reviewers are getting hold of some amazing drugs,... Read more
Published 3 months ago by L. E. Metcalfe
3.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful Claude Rains
Did not much expect but the title made me curious. The story about a clerk who falls for an attractive woman is a little bit poor but the mainly forgotten actor Claude Rains is... Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2011 by WolfThieme
5.0 out of 5 stars
Claude Rains at his very best
After having watched a movie with one of Claude Rains' many great acting performances, I decided to buy this lesser known movie. Read more
Published on 6 Jan 2010 by M. Bijlsma
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Film, Great Star Performance
Claude Rains was a great character actor, and his performance in this film makes this movie a classic, along with the interest story. Read more
Published on 30 Jun 2008 by Sandi Dennis
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