What is Pepe Le Moko / Quai Des Orfevres about?

PEPE LE MOKO, 1937, Rialto Pictures, 94 min. Dir. Julien Duvivier. Fugitive Jean Gabin hides out from women, the law, and fellow criminals in the Casbah of Algiers. He's safe in the Casbah's labyrinth, until passion tempts him out into the open. This classic of French cinema influenced everything from American remakes to a Warner Bros. cartoon character (Pepe Le Pew) and Michael Curtiz’ CASABLANCA. In French with English subtitles. QUAI DES ORFEVRES, 1947, Rialto Pictures, 102 min. Maurice (Bertrand Blier), the jealous husband of ambitious cabaret chanteuse Jenny (Suzy Delair), is blamed for murder when a lecherous movie producer turns up dead. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot spins a classic police procedural, following dauntless Inspector Antoine (Louis Jouvet) as he doggedly goes about untying the knots in this delightfully perplexing, character-driven mystery. In French with English subtitles.

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What is Pepe Le Moko / Quai Des Orfevres about?: PEPE LE MOKO, 1937, Rialto Pictures, 94 min. Dir. Julien Duvivier. Fugitive Jean Gabin hides out from women, the law, and fellow criminals in the Casbah of Algiers. He's safe in the Casbah's labyrinth, until passion tempts him out into the open. This classic of French cinema influenced everything from American remakes to a Warner Bros. cartoon character (Pepe Le Pew) and Michael Curtiz’ CASABLANCA. In French with English subtitles.
QUAI DES ORFEVRES, 1947, Rialto Pictures, 102 min. Maurice (Bertrand Blier), the jealous husband of ambitious cabaret chanteuse Jenny (Suzy Delair), is blamed for murder when a lecherous movie producer turns up dead. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot spins a classic police procedural, following dauntless Inspector Antoine (Louis Jouvet) as he doggedly goes about untying the knots in this delightfully perplexing, character-driven mystery. In French with English subtitles.