La Rue des bouches peintes (1955)
Directed by Robert Vernay

Drama

Film Synopsis

An English governor in India discovers that his wife has been unfaithful to him.  He offers her two options.  Either he has her lover charged with embezzlement, which will surely be the ruin of him, or his wife must agree to spend her days as a prostitute in the grimmer precincts of a Moroccan port.  To save the man she loves, the woman chooses the second solution.
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Film Credits

  • Director: Robert Vernay
  • Script: Solange Térac, Robert Vernay, Maurice Dekobra (novel)
  • Cinematographer: Jean Bachelet
  • Music: Francis Lopez
  • Cast: Paul Bernard (Sir Rodney Wilburn), Françoise Christophe (Lady Blanche Wilburn), Henri Génès (Philippe Jacquemod), Jean Danet (Jack Morgan), Louis Seigner (Spears), Jean Tissier (Jules), Gaby Basset (Mariana), Denise Grey (Winifred), Jean Marchat (Mollison), André Versini (Ben Rhami), Jacques Marin (Le policier), Anne-Marie Mersen (Un fille), Lucien Desagneaux (Un invité), Jean Hébey (Le bijoutier), Guy Saint-Clair, Alain Nobis, Philippe Mory, Denise Carvenne, Floriane Prévot, Jean Clarens
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Black and White
  • Runtime: 87 min

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