Paris Vice Squad

Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier The villain is Berthet Jean Debucourt a highranking government official Basquier suspects that Berthet is a vicious murderer but is unable to prove anything thanks to bureaucratic interference Thus the good inspector plays a waiting game a la Columbo hoping for that one fatal slip on the part of the killer Certain portions of Identite Judiciare proved a bit too intense for American audiences and were accordingly snipped by the censors