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"Quai des Orfèvres" By Pauline Kael

         

A stunningly well-made entertainment, this detective film by Henri-Georges Clouzot features the master actor Louis Jouvet in the role of a police inspector.  His world is contrasted with that of the music hall, represented by the full-blown, hypersexual Suzy Delair.  When this voluptuous slut sings "Avec Son Tra-la-la," she may make you wonder if the higher things in life are worth the trouble.  With Bernard Blier as Delair's worshipful-masochist husband, Charles Dullin in the role of a lecherous hunchback, and, as a lesbian photographer, Simone Renant, at the time said to be the most beautiful actress in Paris.  The film took the top prize at Venice, but in this country it never got the audience it deserved. -- from 5001 Nights at the Movies.

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