Summary
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)
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
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Credits
- Director: Jean Faurez
- Script: Raymond Bussières, Jacques Celhay, Jean Faurez
- Photo: Jean Tournier
- Music: Georges Van Parys
- Cast: Dany Carrel (Madeleine), Raymond Bussières (Émile Dupont), Annette Poivre (Mirabelle), Philippe Lemaire (André aka ’Dédé’), Bernard La Jarrige (Robert Flic – un gendarme), Yves Massard (François), Robert Dalban (Dominique), Pierre Collet, Jean Daurand, Bob Ingarao, D. Goldenberg, Jacques Fayet, Sophie Sel (Sophie), Robert Allan, Paul Uny, Lucien Hubert, Edmond Ardisson, Henri Charrett, Louis Bugette, Mag-Avril, Pierre Duncan, Cheni, Alice Tissot (La concierge), Sylvie (Mme. Dupont), Paul Frankeur (M. Pierre), Claude Achard, Max Amyl, Robert Blome, Jacques Hilling, Georges Montant
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Runtime: 100 min; B&W
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