Maigret Sets a Trap

Maigret Sets a Trap (Maigret tend un piège, 1958) is Jean Delannoy's French crime drama, available to watch online on iFILM. A killer is stalking young women in the Marais district of Paris, and the papers have already named him the "marsh murderer."

Four victims, one method, no leads — Inspector Maigret, played by the great Jean Gabin, gambles on a trap to lure the murderer into the open. The trail leads to a respectable bourgeois household where something has quietly rotted. Annie Girardot and Lino Ventura are among the figures Maigret works over with his slow, patient questions until the circle tightens.

Delannoy adapts Georges Simenon's novel and hands Gabin one of his signature roles: a heavy, unflappable Maigret who cracks the case with psychology and pipe smoke rather than car chases. Two hours of classic French noir where the "why" matters more than the "who." Stream Maigret Sets a Trap (1958) online on iFILM.