Quai Des Orfevres details
| Format: | PG DVD |
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| Starring: | Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier |
| Director: | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| Genre: | World Cinema - French |
| Studio: | ELEVATION |
| Name | Discs | |
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Quai Des Orfevres |
PG Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 46 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 30 Apr 2007 |
| Main languages: | French |
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Great drama about a jealous husband
By a customer from London , 20 Mar 2008[Highly rated reviewer]
Surprisingly hard hitting and tense drama from 1947. Lots of good performances (especially from the guy who plays the cop) and lots of moral complexity with no characters entirely good or entirely bad (with the possible exception of the photographer) but most of them somewhat sympathetic. The ending was perhaps just a little too convenient for my liking but I really enjoyed the process of getting there. Highly recommended.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(9)Génial, magnifique!
By a customer , 17 Feb 2013Simply magnificent. Must be one of top ten French films ever. A marvellous view of the old Paris as well as a gripping, amazingly well acted and directed film. When you get to the end you will be sorry you can't see it again for the first time. Check out Clouzot's other movies, especially Le Corbeau and Les Diaboliques. He was a master.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Une Grande Conte des Flics
By a customer , 15 Dec 2012I really enjoyed this. Well played, well plotted and well directed. A good example of a superior roman policier. If you like Maigret this will be right up your street.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Hope for luck
By Filmloveroxon (5 reviews) , 09 Nov 2011Odd that some viewers seem to want a thriller in this---Clouzot didn't (as witness the 'wrap-it-up-in-15-seconds' twist ending). He and his police inspector ridicule the convention that guilt is found only in bad people. We're all guilty, so with luck none of us are.
If labels are wanted then this is a documentary. It portrays showbiz life in late-40s Paris, affectionately too ---now & then.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Columbo a la francais
By itstinks (681 reviews) from North of Reading , 10 Jan 2011A not very nice man is killed, who did it ? Was it a wpman who wanted to use him to gain stardom but suddenly found him too repulsive for seduction ? was it her husband who is jealous of her constant flirting ?
A detective investigates and finds all the gaps in the alibi's that the suspects had made.
It is his perusal of the crime that really interests and even then it is only up to the level of an episode of Columbo.
Some good dialogue and a couple of quirks make it watchable but not essential.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Good old reliable French cinema
By a customer from not on a French farm , 21 Jan 2010Gripping story, well told.- Was this review helpful to you?
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