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Afternoon Drama: Georges Simenon - The Other Simenon

Jimmy Chisholm

Lisa Gardner

Sarah Collier

Laura Smales

Kenny Blyth

Georges Simenon

Bruce Young

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Drama: Crime

The Other Simenon

27/07/2011

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Georges Simenon - The Other Simenon

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Drama about an obsessive affair between a lawyer and a jewel thief.

4 Extra Debut. A middle-aged lawyer and an impulsive jewel thief begin an obsessive affair, but she has a boyfriend. Stars Jimmy Chisholm.

Georges Simenon, best known for Maigret, published scores of other novels, often tough, gripping and psychologically-penetrating dissections of small lives confounded by fate. Ronald Frame dramatises three of these stories beginning with the obsessive affair between a lawyer and a jewel thief. When her plan to rob a jeweller's shop goes wrong, Yvette - young, beautiful and dangerously impulsive - asks middle-aged lawyer, Lucien, to defend her in court. When he wins the case they begin an affair but he discovers that Yvette has a boyfriend who has no intention of giving her up. 

Other parts played by the cast.
Producer/director Bruce Young.

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