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Quai des Orfèvres

OT: Quai des Orfèvres

Henri-Georges Clouzot // France, 1947
Fiction Feature // FF2011

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Story

Jenny Lamour is an ambitious singer in postwar Paris. When the lecherous but powerful Georges Brignon harasses Jenny and invites her to dinner promising a role in a film, her husband and accompanist Maurice looses his temper and threatens Brignon with death. A few days later Jenny goes to see the old man at his house, here Maurice is also headed with the intention of killing him. Yet, when he arrives there, he finds Brignon’s house open and the man dead on the floor…

Director

Henri-Georges Clouzot, (*1907; †1977) shot to international fame with Le salaire de la peur. He is often considered the French Hitchcock albeit his thrillers are much darker and relentless

Info

Quai des Orfèvres

Fiction Feature

French

Eyes on Paris//FF2011


France

1947

105 min

OV

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Ferry

Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair

Roger De Venloo, Louis Wipf

Armand Thirard

Charles Bretoneiche

Francis Lopez, Albert Lasry

Max Douy

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