HOUSE ON THE WATERFRONT (PORT DU DÉSIR), 1955, 94 min. Dir. Edmund T. Gréville (PRINCESS TAM-TAM). Jean Gabin is a disillusioned tugboat captain with a wayward daughter. He becomes embroiled in a plot to cover up a murder when tough young diver Henri Vidal is bribed by a gangster (Jean-Roger Caussimon) to retrieve a dead woman’s body from a sunken ship that is about to be salvaged. Co-starring Andrée Debar, Edith Georges. In French with English subtitles.
GRISBI (TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI), 1954, Rialto Pictures, 88 min. Dir. Jacques Becker (CASQUE D’OR, LE TROU). Aging gangster Jean Gabin is sitting on a fortune in gold from a perfect heist – but sleazeball Lino Ventura decides he wants in on the action, with the help of double-crossing chorus girl, Jeanne Moreau. In French with English subtitles.