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Quai des blondes | |
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Directed by | Paul Cadéac |
Written by | Michel Audiard Paul Cadéac Pierre Foucaud |
Produced by | André Hunebelle |
Starring | Michel Auclair Barbara Laage Madeleine Lebeau |
Cinematography | Marcel Grignon |
Edited by | Roger Dwyre |
Music by | Jean Marion |
Production companies | Hunebelle Pathé Consortium Cinéma |
Distributed by | Pathé Distribution |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Quay of Blondes (French: Quai des blondes) is a 1954 French crime film directed by Paul Cadéac and starring Michel Auclair, Barbara Laage and Madeleine Lebeau.[1] It was produced and distributed by Pathé and shot in Gevacolor. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Carré. Location shooting took place in French Algeria and Marseille.
A former navy officer is tied up in a smuggling operation between Marseille and Tangier concentrating particularly in lucrative American cigarettes. However his position is threatened by the arrival of a thuggish American gangster who wants to take over the whole market.