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The Murderer Lives at Number 21

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The Murderer Lives at Number 21	comment	The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (in French L'Assassin habite au 21) is a 1942 comedy thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Pierre Fresnay. It was made in France during the German occupation and adapts the 1939 book of the same title by Stanislas-André Steeman.A Serial Killer prowls in Paris. On the body of his numerous victims, he always leaves a visiting card with the name of M. Durand. The police are under pressure, but have no leads. A junk man finds in a cupboard a stock of the killer's visiting cards, so he guesses that the murderer lives in the boarding house where the cupboard comes from. So he tells Inspector Wens, who starts a covert investigation at Number 21, Junot Avenue.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: A petty criminal tells Wens "That's where the murderer lives, at number 21". He collected an old chest of draws that contained M. Durand's infamous Calling Cards.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_1cd602ef	type	Calling Card
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_1cd602ef	comment	Calling Card: The murderer always leaves a visiting card with the name of M. Durand on the body of his victims. Justified: this is a trick used by the three murderers to make the police believe that there is just one killer instead of three.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_2310dacb	type	Dead Man Writing
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_2310dacb	comment	Dead Man Writing: Subverted. Wens leaves behind an "in the event of my death" letter telling his superiors that the killer lives at 21 Junot Avenue. But his nosy girlfriend Mila steams it open, reads the contents, and moves into the boarding house, where Wens is very much alive (and not happy to see her).
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_348c7ded	type	Sword Cane
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_348c7ded	comment	Sword Cane: Dr Linz uses one.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Wens remains collected even when three murderers are about to kill him.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Wens is calm and serious. His job is to investigate murder cases. His girlfriend, Mila Malou, is a would-be singer with an exuberant personality. For example, she decides to start her own investigation of the M. Durand case. Later, she does not hesitate to follow Wens in his infiltration mission in the boarding house.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_4720744e	comment	Cut Phone Lines: Someone cuts the phone line of the boarding house to prevent Wens from calling the police.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_4d92da97	type	Get into Jail Free
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_4d92da97	comment	Get into Jail Free: Turlot insults a policeman because he wants to be arrested to be protected from M. Durand.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_5b39f849	comment	Workplace-Acquired Abilities: Prof. Lalah Poor is a stage magician, so he has Sticky Fingers: he is able to steal items from the pockets of other people. That comes in handy when he has to seize Wens's gun to prevent him from telling the police who the killers are.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_694da243	type	At the Opera Tonight
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_694da243	comment	At the Opera Tonight: Wens attends a performance of Prof. Lalah Poor. The outcome of the investigation happens during a show given by Mila Malou and the inhabitants of the boarding house.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: A serial killer prowls in Paris. Unlike most serial killers, he seems to be killing for money and fun rather than some psycho-sexual compulsion, making this trope strangely blended with Gentleman Thief. On the body of his numerous victims, he always leaves a visiting card with the name of M. Durand.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_7390323c	comment	Sticky Fingers: Prof. Lalah Poor often steals items from the pockets of the other characters and immediately gives them back, like the wallet of Wens or the handcuffs of the policemen.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_7fe66c69	type	Hand of Death
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_7fe66c69	comment	Hand of Death: Seen in a couple of shots, like the opening sequence where a hand enters the frame wielding the Sword Cane, or later in the film where a hand is seen reaching into the frame to cut the telephone line out of the boarding house.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_9a692ae9	type	13 Is Unlucky
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_9a692ae9	comment	13 Is Unlucky: When he infiltrates the boarding house, Wens stays in room no. 13. He says that it does not matter, because he is not superstitious.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: M. Durand's victims keep getting killed in differing ways—one stabbed with a Sword Cane, one shot to death, one stabbed by a regular old knife; another is strangled offscreen. This is a clue that there's more than one killer.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_9ebca7d9	type	Mr. Smith
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_9ebca7d9	comment	Mr. Smith: The pseudonym of the serial killer, M. Durand, is a French equivalent. "Durand" is a very common family name in French. In the book, which is set in London, the pseudonym used is Mr Smith.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: Averted, surprisingly. In France just about all Christianity is Catholic, but Wens still chooses to impersonate a Protestant minister when getting a room at No. 21. He specifically states that he has a wife and children elsewhere.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_adbbb5c5	type	Writers Suck
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_adbbb5c5	comment	Writers Suck: Mlle Cuq is a would-be writer and is ridiculed. At some point, she even considers writing a detective novel with a plot very similar to The Murderer Lives at Number 21.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: The plot of the original book was set in London. The action of the French film happens in Paris.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: The film is an adaptation of a 1939 book of the same title by Stanislas-André Steeman.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Mila Malou.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_bf5951e0	type	Appeal to Flattery
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_bf5951e0	comment	Appeal to Flattery: In order to save time at the construction site, Wens asks who initially had the idea of M. Durand, because he thinks only that one deserves to kill him. It appears that the three killers share the ownership of the idea, so they start arguing.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: The three murderers lose a lot of time gloating at the construction site, which finally saves Wens's life.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_cc107e3b	type	Introdump
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_cc107e3b	comment	Intro Dump: Colin, Linz, Miss Cuq, and Lalah-Poor—all of the residents of the boarding house, that is, and suspects in the case—are all introduced to Wens and the audience in the scene where Wens, undercover as a pastor, arrives at the boarding house and asks for a room.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_ce165390	type	Casting Couch
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_ce165390	comment	Casting Couch: Discussed Trope. Mila says "The casting couch is not my specialty!" when talking with the theater impresario. It's a dash of Hypocritical Humor, as earlier in the scene she was clearly coming onto him and getting nowhere.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_d104235d	type	Fair-Play Whodunnit
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_d104235d	comment	Fair-Play Whodunnit: All the clues discovered by Wens are instantly produced to the viewer. There is no supernatural phenomenon or Applied Phlebotinum.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_d143edf2	type	Everybody Did It
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_d143edf2	comment	Everybody Did It: Downplayed. The mystery is of which of the inhabitants of the boarding house is the murder. The Reveal is that three of them —Colin, Linz, and Lalah-Poor— were in it together, taking turns committing murders.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: Many of them. Mila Malou is Wens's Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Prof. Lalah Poor is a Hindu-style magician, with a lot of quirkiness: for example, he hides inside a box in his bedroom. Mlle Cuq is deluded into thinking that she is a talented writer. Armand, the valet, constantly imitates the cries of birds.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_d4fbe5c4	type	Delegation Relay
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_d4fbe5c4	comment	Delegation Relay: A series of phone calls starts at the top of the command structure and works its way down the various levels of the French police, with each underling in turn demanding that his underling catch the murderer in a time interval that gets shorter and shorter with each phone call. Finally the chain of phone calls gets to Wens's supervisor, who goes to call Wens, and finds a note from Wens on his desk promising to catch the killer.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: When Mila Malou is arrested, she rapidly says that she is Inspector Wens's girlfriend to stay out of trouble.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_d9d864e2	type	Stage Magician
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_d9d864e2	comment	Stage Magician: Prof. Lalah Poor is a Hindu-style stage magician.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: Wens is goind to be killed by the murderers at the construction site, when the police and Mila Malou arrive to save him.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: In the end, Wens realizes who the murderers are, but Prof. Lalah Poor threatens him with a gun and brings him to a construction site, where the two other killers soon arrive.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_e54fed84	type	Can't Get in Trouble for Nuthin'
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_e54fed84	comment	Can't Get in Trouble for Nuthin': When he is threatened by Lalah Poor, Wens spits on a policeman's shoes to be arrested, but the policeman drops the case because someone else calls for help.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_e90b789a	type	Lovely Assistant
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_e90b789a	comment	Lovely Assistant: Prof. Lalah Poor has one in his show.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_f9e16ef	comment	Distressed Dude: Wens is brought by Lalah Poor to a construction site, where the three murderers are going to kill him. Fortunately, Mila Malou brings the police there and saves him.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_ff2ceef1	type	Old Maid
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_ff2ceef1	comment	Old Maid: Mlle. Cuq, the old lady at the boarding house, seems oddly proud of her elderly virgin status, calling herself a "maiden" more than once.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_ff473450	type	Failed Audition Plot
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_ff473450	comment	Failed Audition Plot: Mila Malou fails a singing audition in the beginning. The recruiter tells her that he cannot hire her because her name is not famous enough. He tells her that he would immediately recruit a serial killer like M. Durand because he is famous. So, Mila Malou decides to unmask M. Durand to become famous.
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