Watch The Man On The Eiffel Tower (1949) Free Online

Release Date: 1949

Cast: Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace, Patricia Roc, Burgess Meredith, Robert Hutton, Charles Laughton

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Crime Thriller, Suspense, Mystery

The Man on the Eiffel Tower is a 1949 American mystery film directed by Burgess Meredith, Charles Laughton, and Irving Allen and starring Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Meredith, and Robert Hutton. It is based on the 1931 novel La Tête d'un homme (A Man's Head) by Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his detective Jules Maigret.. The film was co-produced by Tone and Allen as T&A Film Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is also known as L'homme de la tour Eiffel in France. In Paris, a down and out medical student Johann Radek (Franchot Tone) is paid by Bill Kirby... MORE

The Man on the Eiffel Tower is a 1949 American mystery film directed by Burgess Meredith, Charles Laughton, and Irving Allen and starring Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Meredith, and Robert Hutton. It is based on the 1931 novel La Tête d'un homme (A Man's Head) by Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his detective Jules Maigret.. The film was co-produced by Tone and Allen as T&A Film Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is also known as L'homme de la tour Eiffel in France. In Paris, a down and out medical student Johann Radek (Franchot Tone) is paid by Bill Kirby (Robert Hutton) to murder his wealthy aunt. A knife grinder (Burgess Meredith) is suspected, but Radek keeps taunting the police until they realize that he is the killer. The police and Maigret (Charles Laughton) are led on chases through the streets and over the rooftops of Paris and finally up the girders of the Eiffel Tower. LESS