Back Streets of Paris

Back Streets of Paris (French: Macadam) is a 1946 French drama film directed by Marcel Blistène. Jacques Feyder also contributed to the film in the role of artistic director.

Back Streets of Paris (Macadam)
Original release poster
Directed byMarcel Blistène
Produced byEugène Tucherer (B.U.P. Française)
Written byJacques Viot
Starring
Music byJean Wiener
Marguerite Monnot
CinematographyLouis Page
Edited byIsabelle Elman
Production
company
B.U.P. Française
Distributed byRégina
Release date
27 November 1946 (France)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

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: Madame Rose, the owner of the hotel Bijou
  • Paul Meurisse: Victor Menard, former accomplice of Madame Rose
  • Simone Signoret: Gisèle
  • André Roanne: Marvejoul
  • Andrée Clément: Simone, Madame Rose's daughter
  • Jacques Dacqmine: Francois, the kindhearted street vendor
  • Paul Demange: Marcel the hairdresser
  • Jeannette Batti: Mona
  • Marcelle Rexiane: The bar owner
  • Liliane Lesaffre: A gossip
  • Yvonne Yma: An inmate's wife
  • Georges Bever: Armand
  • Félix Oudart: Leon
  • André Nicard: The sheet stealer
  • François Joux: An inspector
  • Richard Francœur: The butler
  • Jean Berton: Gazon
  • Roger Vincent: The gentleman from Le Mans
  • Franck Maurice: An agent
  • Félix Clément
  • Max Simone: The laundress
  • Jacqueline Fontaine
  • Marcel Rouze
  • Paul Barge
  • Maurice Cartier
  • Pierre Juvenet
  • Charles Deschamps
  • Georges Dietrich

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.[1]

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.[2]

References
  1. 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).
  2. Françoise Rosay, La Traversée d'une vie. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1974. pp. 293-296.


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