Underplayed Gems

Pigs Are Seldom Clean (1973)

Pigs Are Seldom Clean poster
Original title
On n'engraisse pas les cochons à l'eau claire
Directed by
Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Genre
fiction film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 52m
Rated
PG
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

An undercover police officer in Quebec has his identity discovered by the criminals he is infiltrating. His fiancée is then kidnapped and raped by the gang.

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What happens

Pigs Are Seldom Clean (French: On n'engraisse pas les cochons à l'eau claire, lit. "One Doesn't Fatten Pigs in Clean Water") is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre and released in 1973. The film stars Jean-René Ouellet as Bob Tremblay, an undercover Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer in Hull, Quebec, whose fiancée Hélène is kidnapped and raped by the criminal gang he is infiltrating after his identity is discovered. The film's cast also includes Marthe Nadeau, Maryse Pelletier, J.-Léo Gagnon, Jean-Pierre Saulnier, Louise Cuerrier and Denys Arcand. Jay Scott of The Globe and Mail characterized the film as "Lefebvre's only melodrama, a film that could almost be a product of the new German Cinema." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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