Quai du Point-du-Jour (1960) - film review

A 40-something worker at a Renault factory, Emile Dupont leads a quiet bachelor life.  One night, he is awoken by a series of gunshots.  From his front door, Emile sees gangsters robbing a bar on the street corner. Suddenly, a young woman with a baby enters his house, looking for a hiding place.  Emile allows the woman, Madeleine, to stay and she tells him her sad story.  Having fallen out with her parents, she had a child with a man who later abandoned her to join a criminal gang.  With Madeleine safely hidden away at his mother’s house in the country, Emile makes contact with Monsieur Pierre, the gangster boss of the Pigalle area.  Through him, Emile hopes to obtain the names of the gangsters and hence find the father of Madeleine’s child.  But the gangsters are not the sentimental kind and intend finding Madeleine so that they can extort money from her...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)

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