Majestic Hotel Cellars

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Majestic Hotel Cellars
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Directed by Richard Pottier
Screenplay by Charles Spaak
Based on Maigret and the Hotel Majestic by Georges Simenon
Produced by Alfred Greven
Starring Albert Préjean
Suzy Prim
Denise Grey
Cinematography Pierre Montazel
Edited by Christian Gaudin
Music by René Sylviano
Production
company
Distributed byL'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne
Release date
11 August 1945
Running time
100 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Majestic Hotel Cellars (French: Les caves du Majestic) is a 1945 French mystery film directed by Richard Pottier and starring Albert Préjean, Suzy Prim and Denise Grey. It is based on the Maigret novel Maigret and the Hotel Majestic by Georges Simenon. [1]

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The film's sets were designed by the art director Guy de Gastyne.

The film earned admissions in France of 1,870,814. [2] It was the last production of the German-controlled French film production company Continental Films, which was dissolved after the Liberation of Paris.

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References

  1. Goble p.428
  2. French box office figures for 1945 at Box Office Story

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