Quai des Orfèvres
OT: Quai des Orfèvres
Henri-Georges Clouzot | France, 1947
Fiction Feature | FF2011
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 relentlessInfo
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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