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Quai des Orfèvres

  • 1947
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 46m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
6.7K
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Suzy Delair in Quai des Orfèvres (1947)
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A jealous husband intends to kill the man his wife is meeting for business, but arrives to find the deed already done.A jealous husband intends to kill the man his wife is meeting for business, but arrives to find the deed already done.A jealous husband intends to kill the man his wife is meeting for business, but arrives to find the deed already done.

  • Director
    • Henri-Georges Clouzot
  • Writers
    • Stanislas-André Steeman
    • Henri-Georges Clouzot
    • Jean Ferry
  • Stars
    • Louis Jouvet
    • Simone Renant
    • Bernard Blier
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.7/10
    6.7K
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    • Director
      • Henri-Georges Clouzot
    • Writers
      • Stanislas-André Steeman
      • Henri-Georges Clouzot
      • Jean Ferry
    • Stars
      • Louis Jouvet
      • Simone Renant
      • Bernard Blier
    • 44User reviews
    • 65Critic reviews
    • 89Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Louis Jouvet
    Louis Jouvet
    • L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine
    Simone Renant
    Simone Renant
    • Dora Monnier
    Bernard Blier
    Bernard Blier
    • Maurice Martineau
    Suzy Delair
    Suzy Delair
    • Jenny Lamour
    Pierre Larquey
    Pierre Larquey
    • Emile Lafour
    Jeanne Fusier-Gir
    Jeanne Fusier-Gir
    • Pâquerette
    Claudine Dupuis
    Claudine Dupuis
    • Manon
    Charles Dullin
    • Georges Brignon
    Henri Arius
    • Léopardi
    • (as Arius)
    Charles Blavette
    Charles Blavette
    • Le gendarme Poitevin
    • (as Blavette)
    René Blancard
    René Blancard
    • Le commissaire principal de la P.J.
    • (as R. Blancard)
    Robert Dalban
    Robert Dalban
    • Paulo
    • (as R. Dalban)
    Jean Daurand
    • L'inspecteur Picard
    • (as J. Daurand)
    Jean Dunot
    Jean Dunot
    • Nitram
    • (as J. Dunot)
    Jacques Grétillat
    Jacques Grétillat
    • Auguste
    • (as J. Grétillat)
    Gilberte Géniat
    Gilberte Géniat
    • Mme Beauvoir
    • (as G. Géniat)
    Gabriel Gobin
    Gabriel Gobin
    • Le patron du bistrot
    • (as G. Gobin)
    François Joux
    • L' officier de police Fayard
    • (as F. Joux)
    • Director
      • Henri-Georges Clouzot
    • Writers
      • Stanislas-André Steeman
      • Henri-Georges Clouzot
      • Jean Ferry
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    User reviews44

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    10heliotropetwo

    Genre bending Tragi-comic love story-character study-police procedural.

    The Director loves the actress and it shows. The actress inhabits the character, whom we love at first sight and sound. The character loves her jealous unprepossessing husband and he loves her. His childhood friend secretly loves his wife and the fact that his friend is a beautiful woman makes the love tragic and ironic. His wife is jealous of his childhood friend and thinks her attentions are out of secret love for her husband.

    Then there is a murder and the investigating police lieutenant, who loves only his bi-racial son, and resents being taken from his company by the above characters, who have had some unpleasant contact with the deceased and are all lying to one degree or another, unravels the mystery with some of the most precise and authentic procedural detail ever captured on film.

    And then there are the atmospherics of a post-war Paris, where coal is in short supply, music is filled with erotic longing and wistful memory, and innocence has long ago been washed away by the rain.

    All of this in a milieu of magicians whose tricks don't always work, dogs who walk on their hind feet and express music criticism, hungry news reporters and exhausted cops.

    And then there are many of the finest actors of their generation who have been through some very bad years directed by, to come full circle, a man who is in love with his lead actress and who, with full justification, was a respected friend of Picasso.

    I've seen this film often and I love all of them and it.
    9Galina_movie_fan

    A great comeback of H.G. Cluozot

    H.G. Cluozot had difficulties working in France after he had made "Le Corbeau" in 1943 which was produced by the German company and later judged by French as a piece of anti-French propaganda. Louis Jouvet, an admirer of Clouzot's work, invited him to direct a thriller "Quai des Orfevres" where he played an ambiguous police inspector investigating a murder that happened in Paris Music Hall. Without each other knowledge, the seductive cabaret singer Jenny Lamoure (Suzy Delair) and her jealous piano-accompanist husband Maurice who is madly in love with her (Bertrand Blier, father of director Bertrand Blier) trying to cover up (without each other's knowledge) what they believe to be their involvement in the murder? Enters tenacious policeman (Louis Jouvet) who is determined to discover the truth. Jouvet practically stole the movie with wonderfully cynic and sentimental in the same time performance. "His character, his eagle-like profile and his unique way of speaking made him unforgettable." "Quai des Orfevres", witty and atmospheric observation of human weaknesses was a great comeback of H.G. Cluozot, the fine director, "French Hitchcock".
    10dbdumonteil

    Chabrol's predecessor.

    First of all,there is a detective story:"légitime défense" by Belgian Stanislas André Steeman whose "l'assassin habite au 21" Clouzot had already transferred to the screen in 1942,with Pierre Fresnay and the same actress Suzy Delair.Steeman complained about Clouzot's adaptation for both movies.The movie from 1942 was excellent,but the "detective story" side had been kept,so why complaining?As for "Quai des orfèvres",Clouzot was now in a new phase of his brilliant career.After having directed "le corbeau" and been blacklisted,he had a lot more to say than a simple whodunit.Steeman complained essentially about the poor detective ending,which I will not reveal of course,but Clouzot focused on the social vignettes,on his characters's psychology,and he did not give a damn about the puzzle à la Agatha Christie.By doing so,he becomes the genuine predecessor of CLaude Chabrol who has always been closer to him than to Alfred Hitchcock whom he admires much though. Suzy Delair has great screen presence,and you will love the song she really sings(she was a singer too)"avec son tralala".Bernard Blier gives ,as ever,a sparing of gestures and words performance,and he really pulls it off .Two characters are particularly interesting and disturbing:the first one,Dora,the photographer:she takes pictures of female models ,and Clouzot,by subtle touches,reveals us she's a lesbian.Of course,the word is never uttered(How could it be in 1947?) The police chief (fabulous Louis Jouvet) tells her:"You and me,WE are not lucky with women."The portrait of this cop is very detailed:we learn a lot of things about him,not necessarily connected with the Delair/Blier plot:he's a widower ,with a son he adores and who runs into school difficulties,particularly in geometry.So we get to know all the characters in depth.One of the most important manifesto of post-war French cinema.
    8blanche-2

    Clouzot strikes again and hits his mark

    Henri-Georges Clouzot's "Quai des Orfevres" (1947) stars Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Louis Jouvet, and Charles Dullin. The story takes place in post-war Paris, where an accompanist, Maurice Martineau (Blier) lives with his singer wife, Marguerite, better known as Jenny Lamour (Suzy Delair). An important man, Georges Brignon (Dullin) promises Jenny work, and because she's ambitious, she flirts with him. Maurice is an extremely jealous man, so he finds Brignon in a restaurant and threatens him.

    Later on, Jenny tells Maurice she is visiting her grandmother, who lives in another town. This gives Maurice a good opportunity to bump off Brignon, especially when he finds the man's address on a piece of paper in the kitchen and realizes Jenny was lying. But when he gets to Brignon's house, Brignon is already dead.

    Inspector Antoine (Juvet) is assigned to the case, and it doesn't take him long to realize that some alibis aren't very secure.

    Wonderful film, with the excellent Juvet outstanding as Inspector Antoine, and an excellent performance by Simone Renant as a lesbian photographer, Dora, in love with Jenny. Delair, who was involved with Clouzot, is good as a lower-class woman who loves her husband but wants to get ahead in show business as well.

    This is Clouzot at his best, with a witty script with some plot twists and a true Parisian atmosphere.
    10jotix100

    An inspector calls

    "Quai des Orfevres", directed by the brilliant Henri-Georges Clouzot, is a film to treasure because it is one of the best exponents of French film making of the postwar years. M. Clouzot, adapting the Steeman's novel, "Longtime Defence", shows his genius in the way he sets the story and in the way he interconnects all the characters in this deeply satisfying movie that, as DBDumonteil has pointed out in this forum, it demonstrates how influential Cluzot was and how much the next generation of French movie makers are indebted to the master, especially Claude Chabrol.

    The crisp black and white cinematography by Armand Thirard has been magnificently transferred to the Criterion DVD we recently watched. Working with Clouzot, Thirard makes the most of the dark tones and the shadows in most of the key scenes. The music by Francis Lopez, a man who created light music and operettas in France, works well in the context of the film, since the action takes place in the world of the music halls and night clubs.

    Louis Jouvet, who is seen as a police detective, is perfect in the part. This was one of his best screen appearances for an actor who was a pillar of the French theater. Jouvet clearly understood well the mechanics for the creation of his police inspector who is wiser and can look deeply into the souls of his suspects and ultimately steals the show from the others. In an unfair comment by someone in this page, Jouvet's inspector is compared with Peter Falk's Columbo, the television detective. Frankly, and no disrespect to Mr. Falk intended, it's like comparing a great champagne to a good house wine.

    Bernard Blier is perfect as the jealous husband. Blier had the kind of face that one could associate with the man consumed with the passion his wife Jenny Lamour has awakened in him. Martineau is vulnerable and doesn't act rationally; he is an easy suspect because he has done everything wrong as he finds in the middle of a crime he didn't commit, but all the evidence points to the contrary.

    The other great character in the film is Dora, the photographer. It's clear by the way she interacts with Jenny where her real interest lies. Simone Renant is tragically appealing as this troubled woman and makes an enormous contribution to the film. Suzy Delair, playing Jenny, is appealing as the singer who suddenly leaps from obscurity to celebrity and attracts the kind of men like Brignon, the old lecher.

    The film is one of the best Clouzot directed during his distinguished career and one that will live forever because the way he brought all the elements together.

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    • Trivia
      Henri-Georges Clouzot wrote almost two-thirds of the film only having read the novel years before, recalling it from memory, since it was out of print by the time he started the screenplay. When the novelist Stanislas-André Steeman saw the film, he was furious about the differences between the novel and the film.
    • Goofs
      When Antoine is repeating Maurice's deposition to the typist, he says that the confrontation between Maurice and Brignon at the restaurant took place on Wednesday, December 2, 1946. In 1946, December 2 fell on a Monday.
    • Quotes

      L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: I have to admit, I've taken a liking to you, Miss Dora Monier.

      Dora Monier: Me?

      L'inspecteur adjoint Antoine: Because I have to say, you're just my type. When it comes to women, we'll never have a chance.

    • Connections
      Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: La monnaie de l'absolu (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Avec son Tralala
      Music by Francis Lopez

      Lyrics by André Hornez

      Performed by Suzy Delair

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    • Release date
      • October 3, 1947 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Official site
      • distributor's webpage
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Jenny Lamour
    • Filming locations
      • Paris, France(Exterior)
    • Production company
      • Majestic Films
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $180,974
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $9,632
      • Oct 27, 2002
    • Gross worldwide
      • $181,041
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 46 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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