Quai du Point-du-Jour (1960)
Directed by Jean Faurez

Crime / Drama
aka: Port of Point-du-Jour

Film Synopsis

A 40-something worker at a Renault factory, Emile Dupont leads a quiet bachelor life.  One night, he is awoken by a series of gunshots.  From his front door, Emile sees gangsters robbing a bar on the street corner. Suddenly, a young woman with a baby enters his house, looking for a hiding place.  Emile allows the woman, Madeleine, to stay and she tells him her sad story.  Having fallen out with her parents, she had a child with a man who later abandoned her to join a criminal gang.  With Madeleine safely hidden away at his mother's house in the country, Emile makes contact with Monsieur Pierre, the gangster boss of the Pigalle area.  Through him, Emile hopes to obtain the names of the gangsters and hence find the father of Madeleine's child.  But the gangsters are not the sentimental kind and intend finding Madeleine so that they can extort money from her...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Jean Faurez
  • Script: Raymond Bussières, Jacques Celhay, Jean Faurez
  • Cinematographer: Jean Tournier
  • Music: Georges Van Parys
  • Cast: Dany Carrel (Madeleine), Raymond Bussières (Émile Dupont), Annette Poivre (Mirabelle), Philippe Lemaire (André aka 'Dédé'), Bernard La Jarrige (Robert - un gendarme), Yves Massard (François), Robert Dalban (Dominique), Sophie Sel (Sophie), Alice Tissot (La concierge), Sylvie (Mme. Dupont), Paul Frankeur (M. Pierre), Pierre Collet, Jean Daurand, Bob Ingarao, D. Goldenberg, Jacques Fayet, Robert Allan, Paul Uny, Lucien Hubert, Edmond Ardisson
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Black and White
  • Runtime: 100 min
  • Aka: Port of Point-du-Jour

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