Back Streets of Paris

Back Streets of Paris
Back Streets of Paris
	Original release poster
Directed by	Marcel Blistène
Written by	Jacques Viot
Produced by	Eugène Tucherer (B.U.P. Française)
Starring	Françoise Rosay; Paul Meurisse; Simone Signoret;
Cinematography	Louis Page
Edited by	Isabelle Elman
Music by	Jean Wiener; Marguerite Monnot
Production; company	B.U.P. Française
Distributed by	Régina
Release date	27 November 1946 (France)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Back Streets of Paris (French: Macadam) is a 1946 French drama film directed by Marcel Blistène. Jacques Feyder also contributed to the film in the role of artistic director.

Plot[]

This story involves Madame Rose, a hotelkeeper in a Paris suburb who will stop at nothing, including murder. Other characters include one of her former accomplices who carries a suitcase full of cash, a kindhearted street vendor, the gangster's mistress, and the landlady's daughter, Simone, who dreams of a better life.

Cast[]

Françoise Rosay: Madame Rose, the owner of the hotel Bijou
Paul Meurisse: Victor Menard, former accomplice of Madame Rose
Simone Signoret: Gisèle
André Roanne: Marvejoul
Andrée Clément: Simone, Madame Rose's daughter
Jacques Dacqmine: Francois, the kindhearted street vendor
Paul Demange: Marcel the hairdresser
Jeannette Batti: Mona
Marcelle Rexiane: The bar owner
Liliane Lesaffre: A gossip
Yvonne Yma: An inmate's wife
Georges Bever: Armand
Félix Oudart: Leon
André Nicard: The sheet stealer
François Joux: An inspector
Richard Francœur: The butler
Jean Berton: Gazon
Roger Vincent: The gentleman from Le Mans
Franck Maurice: An agent
Félix Clément
Max Simone: The laundress
Jacqueline Fontaine
Marcel Rouze
Paul Barge
Maurice Cartier
Pierre Juvenet
Charles Deschamps
Georges Dietrich

Production[]

Filming took place between June and August 1946 at the Studios de Saint-Maurice, with exterior scenes filmed at the Zoo de Vincennes. Jean d'Eaubonne was the set designer.^[1]

Jacques Feyder is credited as artistic director ("direction artistique"). Although Feyder was ill at the time, according to Françoise Rosay (his wife) he was asked to supervise filming because various members of the crew had no confidence in the young and inexperienced director, Marcel Blistène. Relations on the set between Blistène and Feyder were hostile, and once filming was finished it was Feyder who oversaw the editing.^[2]

References[]

^ Jacques Feyder, sous la direction de Jan A. Gili et Michel Marie. Paris: Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma, 1998. pp. 249–250. (1895, numéro hors série, octobre 1998).
^ Françoise Rosay, La Traversée d'une vie. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1974. pp. 293–296.

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[1] Jacques Feyder, sous la direction de Jan A. Gili et Michel Marie. Paris: Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma, 1998. pp. 249–250. (1895, numéro hors série, octobre 1998).

[2] Françoise Rosay, La Traversée d'une vie. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1974. pp. 293–296.

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