Les intrigantes (1954)

Director:

Henri Decoin

Writers:

François Boyer, Henri Decoin,

Stars:

Raymond Rouleau, Jeanne Moreau, Raymond Pellegrin

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Raymond Rouleau	...	Paul Rémi
Jeanne Moreau	...	Mona Rémi
Raymond Pellegrin	...	Andrieux
Etchika Choureau	...	Marie
Marcel André	...	Inspecteur Gosset
Claude Borelli	...	Jany Noël
Jacques Charon	...	Antonio Pan (as Jacques Charron)
Paul Demange	...	Émile Carcassone
Louis de Funès	...	Marcange
Robert Hirsch	...	Pakévitch
Jean-Louis Le Goff	...	Guillaume
Jean Olivier
Renée Passeur	...	Mme Marcange
Paul Azaïs	...	Le brancardier
Guy Piérauld	...	Un machiniste (as Guy Pierrauld)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

based on novel

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

13 July 1956 (Portugal)

Also Known As:

The Plotters

Company Credits

Production Co:

Memnon Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

User Reviews

Stage plight.

In the forties and the fifties,Henry Decoin's forte was the film noir:"non coupable" which remains ignored today might be his masterpiece,but there are other interesting works such as "la vérité sur Bébé Donge"or "les inconnus dans la maison" .The almost documentary approach of "Razzia sur la chnouff" (about drugs) seems modern even today.And some works which are difficult to see ("Maléfices" "Bonnes à tuer" and "tous peuvent me tuer" probably deserve to be watched).

"Les intrigantes " belongs to Decoin's films noirs.An extremely good cast (Jeanne Moreau,Raymond Pellegrin and Raymond Rouleau)is very appealing.It strongly displays Hitchcock's influence ,much more than his contemporaries Clouzot and Duvivier: Moreau's face reflected on Pellegrin's glasses is a quotation from "Strangers on a train" (1951) and the use of a theater during the whole movie and for the final sequences recall "stage fright" (1950).Rouleau plays a theater owner who is accused of pushing his associate from a foot-bridge above the stage.But the script is not really good.Moreau's and Pellegrin's (her lover) attitudes do not make much sense.Why ,for instance,does Moreau hide her husband in a mental hospital when he's about to be arrested ? Even if she wants to put him off the scent,it will not delude him for long anyway.

Louis de Funes's fans can be interested in his small part of a lousy playwright.He is not the comic relief though,this is reserved to a man called "Carcassone" whose interventions are irritating.