Pigs Are Seldom Clean (1973)

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

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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