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
How it feels
An FBI agent investigates gold smuggling in Casablanca. He navigates a world of criminals and dangerous women.
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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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