Movie

Paris Vice Squad (1951)

• April 18, 1951
• 1h 30m

• Crime

Overview

Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier. The villain is Berthet (Jean Debucourt), a high-ranking government official. Basquier suspects that Berthet is a vicious murderer, but is unable to prove anything thanks to bureaucratic interference. Thus, the good inspector plays a waiting game a la Columbo, hoping for that one fatal slip on the part of the killer. Certain portions of Identite Judiciare proved a bit too intense for American audiences, and were accordingly snipped by the censors.

Director

Hervé Bromberger

Writers

Jacques Rémy

Starring

Raymond Souplex, Jean Debucourt, Robert Berri