Actors: Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair, Simone Renan, Pierre Larquey, Charles Dullin
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Quai des Orfèvres (Jenny Lamour)
QUAI DES ORFEVRES, sometimes known as "Jenny Lamour" in english speaking countries, is a movie written and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot in 1947.
Martineau is a brave man but terribly jealous. His wife, Jenny Lamour, is an ambitious young singer who likes to play with men if it can help her career in any way. One night, Martineau, convinced that Jenny is cheating on him with the industrialist Brignon, goes to his place and finds Brignon lying on the floor, already dead.
Jenny is persuaded that she's the murderer as she had throwed a bottle of Champagne at Brignon's head earlier in the evening. When Jenny notices that she's forgotten her scarf on the scene of the crime, Dora, a friend of the Martineaus, comes back at Brignon's mansion and rubs out all fingerprints.
It's a hard job for inspector Louis Jouvet who's asked to discover who really has killed the industrial.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of Quai des Orfèvres (Jenny Lamour)
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Plot
Composition of Movie Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Moderately Challenging
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 40%
Murders of set profession?
- businessmen
Kind of mystery?
- police procedural
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- musician
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- fat (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 1
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Check here if B&W
Yes
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Subtitles?
- Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Broadway musical
Is this movie based on a
- book
