"Quai des Orfèvres is not so famous as Clouzot films such as "Le salaire de la peur" (1953) or "Diabolique" (1955) but very worth watching.
It is a "policier" that derives its title from an (in)famous police station in Paris and in which the story seems to revolve around a murder. In other words this film seems to be a "whodonnit".
The adaptation of the novel by Stanislas André Steeman is however so sloppy that one begins to ask oneself if Clouzot was very interested in the story. I think he was not. He was much more interested in the character development of the main characters.
And so we get to know an ambitious vaudeville artist who turns out te be a faithful wife and a cynical police officer who turns out to be a caring single father. More a "whoamI" then a "whodonnit".
It is a "policier" that derives its title from an (in)famous police station in Paris and in which the story seems to revolve around a murder. In other words this film seems to be a "whodonnit".
The adaptation of the novel by Stanislas André Steeman is however so sloppy that one begins to ask oneself if Clouzot was very interested in the story. I think he was not. He was much more interested in the character development of the main characters.
And so we get to know an ambitious vaudeville artist who turns out te be a faithful wife and a cynical police officer who turns out to be a caring single father. More a "whoamI" then a "whodonnit".