Maigret Sets a Trap (French: Maigret tend un piège) is a 1958 French-Italian crime film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot and Olivier Hussenot. It is an adaptation of the novel "Maigret Sets a Trap" by Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his fictional detective Jules Maigret.
It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux.
Plot.
Maigret hunts a serial killer in Paris who stabs women in the evening streets and taunts the police with their failure to catch him.
Critical reception.
In "The New York Times", Bosley Crowther wrote, "If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of French writer Georges Simenon and his famous and fascinating Parisian detective, Inspector Maigret, you can't ask a better introduction to both...an exciting example of the author's sophisticated work and a beautifully clear and catchy portrait of the gumshoe, performed by Jean Gabin...This is a don't-miss picture for the mystery fans."