is it a murder mystery. is it a police procedural. is it a back stage look at seedy french music halls. quai des orfevres is all of these and but more than anything else it an amusing comedy of infidelity and jealousy and love and set in post wwii paris. it may be surprising that henri georges clouzot and the director of such grim films as le corbeau or such suspenseful nail biters as diabolique and the wages of fear and is the director of this one. clouzot and however and was a shrewd film maker. in a murder mystery and he tells us and there an element of playfulness. it never totally realistic. in this i share hitchcock view and which says and a murder mystery is a slice of cake with raisins and candied fruit and and if you deny yourself this and you might as well film a documentary. quai des orfevres is a wonderful film and and it no documentary. jenny martineau (suzy delair) is an ambitious singer at music halls and supper clubs. she a flirt and she sees nothing too wrong with using a bit of sex as well as talent to get a contract. her stage name is jenny latour. and she really loves her husband and maurice martineau (bernard blier). martineau is something of a sad sack. he her accompanist and arranger. he a bit balding and a bit chubby and jealous to a fault. then we have their neighbor and the photographer dora monnier (simone renant). she blond and gorgeous (think of rita hayworth) and capable. she and martineau have been friends since they were children together. dora and however and is definitely not thinking just of friendship when she looks at jenny. then comes along georges brignon (charles dullin) and a wizened and rich and dirty old man and who often has dora take art photographs of his young female proteges whom he poses himself. he offers a contract for a film to jenny and and suggests a dinner at his home to discuss the details. jenny is more than willing. maurice is furious and forbids it. jenny shouts right back at him and youre jealous of the rich. well and i want my share of their dough. i am all for royalty. youre dad was a laborer and maurice shouts back. so what. under louis xv and i would have been madame de pompadour. i would have heated up their tights. and after brignon is found dead with a smashed champagne bottle next to his bleeding skull and there dora to try to make things safe for jenny. but wait. inspector antoine gets the case. antoine (louis jouvet) is a tall and tired and middle aged bachelor with sore feet. he has seen it all. he served in the colonies with the foreign legion and returned with an adopted baby and malaria. the child is now about eight years old and antoine dotes on him. one of the first things antoine discovers is not only did someone brain brignon with a bottle and someone shot him in the heart. who did it. before long jenny and maurice and dora all are making up alibis and lying and and at one or another point and confessing. how will antoine discover the murderer. will we have a chance to see some great music hall songs sung by jenny latour. everything becomes clear and but only with time and detective antoine persistence. we are left with many kinds of love leading to all kinds of motives and from hair trigger jealousy to longing glances. and all played with a nice mixture of gallic amusement. clouzot takes us to a paris of seedy but not threatening neighborhoods and to downtrodden music publishers where tunes are played on the piano for buyers and to restaurants with discrete private dining rooms. most of all and he takes us to the music hall where jenny latour often performs. we can see jenny as she sings and with couples in the seats and single men wearing their coats and hats in standing room. and everyone smokes. the first third of the film and in fact and takes place largely in this milieu. with jenny singing about her petite tra la la and her sweet tra la la and we follow her from trying out the song at the publishers to a rehearsal to a saucy performance with jenny in a feathered hat and a corset and gartered stockings and not much else. delair and blier and renant all do wonderful jobs and but it louis jouvet who holds everything together. he was a marvelous actor who disliked making films. the stage was his world and and he took on films only if he happened to like the director and to make money to finance his stage work. jouvet was tall with a long face and broad cheekbones. he was not conventionally handsome but he had what it takes to dominate a scene. for a look at how skillfully he could play comedy and watch him in drole de drame. he a fascinating actor. at one point he says and i have taken a liking to you and miss dora monnier. me. she asks. yes. because you and i are two of a kind. when it comes to women and we will never have a chance. jouvet brings all kinds of nuances to that line and from rueful regret to a gentle amusement. 
is it a murder mystery. is it a police procedural. is it a back stage look at seedy french music halls. quai des orfevres is all of these and but more than anything else it an amusing comedy of infidelity and jealousy and love and set in post wwii paris. it may be surprising that henri georges clouzot and the director of such grim films as le corbeau or such suspenseful nail biters as diabolique and the wages of fear and is the director of this one. clouzot and however and was a shrewd film maker. in a murder mystery and he tells us and there an element of playfulness. it never totally realistic. in this i share hitchcock view and which says and a murder mystery is a slice of cake with raisins and candied fruit and and if you deny yourself this and you might as well film a documentary. quai des orfevres is a wonderful film and and it no documentary. jenny martineau (suzy delair) is an ambitious singer at music halls and supper clubs. she a flirt and she sees nothing too wrong with using a bit of sex as well as talent to get a contract. her stage name is jenny latour. and she really loves her husband and maurice martineau (bernard blier). martineau is something of a sad sack. he her accompanist and arranger. he a bit balding and a bit chubby and jealous to a fault. then we have their neighbor and the photographer dora monnier (simone renant). she blond and gorgeous (think of rita hayworth) and capable. she and martineau have been friends since they were children together. dora and however and is definitely not thinking just of friendship when she looks at jenny. then comes along georges brignon (charles dullin) and a wizened and rich and dirty old man and who often has dora take art photographs of his young female proteges whom he poses himself. he offers a contract for a film to jenny and and suggests a dinner at his home to discuss the details. jenny is more than willing. maurice is furious and forbids it. jenny shouts right back at him and youre jealous of the rich. well and i want my share of their dough. i am all for royalty. youre dad was a laborer and maurice shouts back. so what. under louis xv and i would have been madame de pompadour. i would have heated up their tights. and after brignon is found dead with a smashed champagne bottle next to his bleeding skull and there dora to try to make things safe for jenny. but wait. inspector antoine gets the case. antoine (louis jouvet) is a tall and tired and middle aged bachelor with sore feet. he has seen it all. he served in the colonies with the foreign legion and returned with an adopted baby and malaria. the child is now about eight years old and antoine dotes on him. one of the first things antoine discovers is not only did someone brain brignon with a bottle and someone shot him in the heart. who did it. before long jenny and maurice and dora all are making up alibis and lying and and at one or another point and confessing. how will antoine discover the murderer. will we have a chance to see some great music hall songs sung by jenny latour. everything becomes clear and but only with time and detective antoine persistence. we are left with many kinds of love leading to all kinds of motives and from hair trigger jealousy to longing glances. and all played with a nice mixture of gallic amusement. clouzot takes us to a paris of seedy but not threatening neighborhoods and to downtrodden music publishers where tunes are played on the piano for buyers and to restaurants with discrete private dining rooms. most of all and he takes us to the music hall where jenny latour often performs. we can see jenny as she sings and with couples in the seats and single men wearing their coats and hats in standing room. and everyone smokes. the first third of the film and in fact and takes place largely in this milieu. with jenny singing about her petite tra la la and her sweet tra la la and we follow her from trying out the song at the publishers to a rehearsal to a saucy performance with jenny in a feathered hat and a corset and gartered stockings and not much else. delair and blier and renant all do wonderful jobs and but it louis jouvet who holds everything together. he was a marvelous actor who disliked making films. the stage was his world and and he took on films only if he happened to like the director and to make money to finance his stage work. jouvet was tall with a long face and broad cheekbones. he was not conventionally handsome but he had what it takes to dominate a scene. for a look at how skillfully he could play comedy and watch him in drole de drame. he a fascinating actor. at one point he says and i have taken a liking to you and miss dora monnier. me. she asks. yes. because you and i are two of a kind. when it comes to women and we will never have a chance. jouvet brings all kinds of nuances to that line and from rueful regret to a gentle amusement. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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