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Quai des Orfèvres (1947) 7.7
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Reviews: 23 user | 32 critic | 10 from Metacritic.com Jenny Lamour wants to succeed in music hall. Her husband and accompanist is Maurice Martineau, a nice but jealous guy. When he knew Jenny is making eyes at Brignon, an old businessman, in ... See full summary » Director:Henri-Georges Clouzot |
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Cast
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Louis Jouvet | ... | |
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Simone Renant | ... | |
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Bernard Blier | ... | |
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Suzy Delair | ... | |
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Pierre Larquey | ... |
Emile Lafour, un chauffeur de taxi
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Jeanne Fusier-Gir | ... |
Pâquerette, la dame du vestiaire
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Claudine Dupuis | ... |
Manon
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Charles Dullin | ... |
Georges Brignon
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Henri Arius | ... |
Léopardi, l' éditeur de musique
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Charles Blavette | ... |
Le gendarme Poitevin
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René Blancard | ... |
Le commissaire principal de la P.J.
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Robert Dalban | ... |
Paulo, un truand
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Jean Daurand | ... |
L'inspecteur Picard
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Jean Dunot | ... |
Nitram - un chanteur comique
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Jacques Grétillat | ... |
Auguste
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Jenny Lamour wants to succeed in music hall. Her husband and accompanist is Maurice Martineau, a nice but jealous guy. When he knew Jenny is making eyes at Brignon, an old businessman, in order to get some engagements, he looses his temper and threatens Brignon with death. But Jenny went anyway to a rendez-vous at the old man's, who is murdered the same evening. The criminal investigations are lead by Inspector Antoine... Written by Yepok
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Country:
FranceLanguage:
FrenchRelease Date:
5 March 1948 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Quay of the Goldsmiths See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$13,139 (USA) (1 November 2002)Gross:
$152,961 (USA) (1 August 2003)Company Credits
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Runtime:
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Mono (Western Electric Variable Density)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Music by Francis Lopez
Lyrics by André Hornez
Sung by Jenny Lamour (Suzy Delair)
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Clouzot wrote almost two-thirds of the film only having read the novel years before, recalling it from memory, since it was out of print by the time he started the screenplay. When Stanislas-André Steeman saw the film, he was furious about the differences between the novel and the film. See more »Goofs
When Antoine is repeating Maurice's deposition to the typist, he says that the confrontation between Maurice and Brignon at the restaurant took place on Wednesday, December 2, 1946. In 1946, December 2 fell on a Monday. See more »Soundtracks
"Avec son tralala, son petit tralala, elle faisait tourner toutes les têtes"Music by Francis Lopez
Lyrics by André Hornez
Sung by Jenny Lamour (Suzy Delair)
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The Director loves the actress and it shows. The actress inhabits the character, whom we love at first sight and sound. The character loves her jealous unprepossessing husband and he loves her. His childhood friend secretly loves his wife and the fact that his friend is a beautiful woman makes the love tragic and ironic. His wife is jealous of his childhood friend and thinks her attentions are out of secret love for her husband.
Then there is a murder and the investigating police lieutenant, who loves only his bi-racial son, and resents being taken from his company by the above characters, who have had some unpleasant contact with the deceased and are all lying to one degree or another, unravels the mystery with some of the most precise and authentic procedural detail ever captured on film.
And then there are the atmospherics of a post-war Paris, where coal is in short supply, music is filled with erotic longing and wistful memory, and innocence has long ago been washed away by the rain.
All of this in a milieu of magicians whose tricks don't always work, dogs who walk on their hind feet and express music criticism, hungry news reporters and exhausted cops.
And then there are many of the finest actors of their generation who have been through some very bad years directed by, to come full circle, a man who is in love with his lead actress and who, with full justification, was a respected friend of Picasso.
I've seen this film often and I love all of them and it.