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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
Original release poster
Directed by	Marcel Blistène
Written by	Jacques Viot
Produced by	Eugène Tucherer (B.U.P. Française)
Starring	Françoise Rosay Paul Meurisse Simone Signoret
Cinematography	Louis Page
Edited by	Isabelle Elman
Music by	Jean Wiener Marguerite Monnot
Production company	B.U.P. Française
Distributed by	Régina
Release date	27 November 1946 (France)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

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

External links

• Back Streets of Paris at IMDb
• Macadam at AllMovie
• Macadam at Ciné-Ressources.

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