Poison Ivy (1953)
- Original title
- La Môme vert-de-gris
- Directed by
- Bernard Borderie
- Genre
- crime film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An FBI agent investigates gold smuggling in Casablanca. He navigates a world of criminals and dangerous women.
grittydarkpulpynoirishsuspensefulhardboiledretromasculine
What happens
La môme vert-de-gris (French for "The Greyish-Green Dame"), released in the USA as Poison Ivy, is a 1953 French crime film. It was French director Bernard Borderie's first film, as well as American-born French actor Eddie Constantine's. The screenplay is based on the 1937 Lemmy Caution thriller Poison Ivy by Peter Cheyney, which had been in 1945 the first title published in Marcel Duhamel's Série noire. The story involves FBI agent Caution investigating gold smuggling activity in Casablanca. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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