Quai des Orfèvres (1947)

Directed by

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

TP

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 198 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A singer named Jenny Lamour and her husband become suspects in a murder case. A police inspector investigates the crime and the secrets of everyone involved.

suspensefultenseatmosphericmethodicalnoirishmeasuredgritty

What happens

Quai des Orfèvres (French: [ke dez‿ɔʁfɛvʁ]; "Goldsmiths' Quay"; also known as Jenny Lamour) is a 1947 French police procedural drama film based on the book Légitime défense by Stanislas-Andre Steeman. Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot the film stars Suzy Delair as Jenny Lamour, Bernard Blier as Maurice Martineau, Louis Jouvet as Inspector Antoine and Simone Renant as Dora. The film's title refers to the Paris headquarters of the police criminal investigation division, the Judicial Police headquarters, located at 36 quai des Orfèvres and the setting for much of the latter half of the film. The film was Clouzot's third directorial effort, and the first after the controversy of Le corbeau. Without having the novel on hand, Clouzot and Jean Ferry based the film on memory and deviated significantly from the original story. The film was released in France and was popular with both audiences and critics. On the film's re-release in the United States in 2002, it continued to receive praise from critics as one of the director's best films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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