Maigret 1988 Written by Arthur Weingarten, directed by Paul Lynch. A US TV film that was the pilot for a TV series. The film didn't sell the show. It came out on VHS but not on DVD.
Richard Harris was picked to play Maigret, after Richard Burton, Alec Guinness and George C Scott dropped out. He's not really like the character in Georges Simenon's novels, he rather more like Peter Falk's Columbo, but with a pipe and a mumble. He's no Bruno Cremer or Rupert Davies.
The story was OK but I can't say much more than that. I can see why it never sold the pilot.
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