Back Streets of Paris (French: Macadam) is a 1946 French crime film directed by Marcel Blistène. Jacques Feyder also contributed to the film in the role of artistic director.
Plot This story involves Madame Rose, a hotelkeeper in a Paris suburb who will stop at nothing, including murder. Other characters include one of her former accomplices who carries a suitcase full of cash, a kindhearted street vendor, the gangster's mistress, and the landlady's daughter, Simone, who dreams of a better life.
Cast Françoise Rosay as Mme. Rose Paul Meurisse as Victor Menard Andrée Clément as Simone Simone Signoret as Gisele André Roanne as Marvejouis Paul Demange as Marcel, le coiffeur Georges Bever as Armand (as Bever) Jeannette Batti as Mona François Joux as Un inspecteur Félix Clément as Himself Richard Francoeur as Le maître d'hotel Jacqueline Fontaine as Himself Simone Max as Himself André Nicard as Le voleur de draps Félix Oudart as L'Hertier Jacques Dacqmine as Fraçois (as Jacques Dacqmine de la Comédie Française)
Production Filming took place between June and August 1946 at the Studios de Saint-Maurice, with exterior scenes filmed at the Zoo de Vincennes. Jean d'Eaubonne was the set designer.Jacques Feyder, sous la direction de Jan A. Gili et Michel Marie. Paris: Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma, 1998. pp. 249–250. (1895, numéro hors série, octobre 1998).
Jacques Feyder is credited as artistic director ("direction artistique"). Although Feyder was ill at the time, according to Françoise Rosay (his wife) he was asked to supervise filming because various members of the crew had no confidence in the young and inexperienced director, Marcel Blistène. Relations on the set between Blistène and Feyder were hostile, and once filming was finished it was Feyder who oversaw the editing.Françoise Rosay, La Traversée d'une vie. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1974. pp. 293–296.
References
External links
Macadam at Ciné-Ressources.