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Though dressed in the guise of a murder mystery, Quai des Orfèvres is a rich, engrossing character study in which murder plays a secondary role. Six years before the triumph of The Wages of Fear, director Henri-Georges Clouzot couldn't find a copy of his source novel (Légitime Defense, by Stanislas-André Steeman), so he crafted this stylish police procedural from spotty memory, infuriating the author while freeing himself to explore the depths of his all-too-human characters. Using atmospheric Parisian locations and shadowy compositions that rival anything in American film noir, Clouzot gives plausible alibis to the prime su
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Manufacturer: Criterion
Release date: 27 May 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0037429176924 UPC: 037429176924
Release date: 27 May 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0037429176924 UPC: 037429176924
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