The Light Across the Street
1956 film by Georges Lacombe
- 25 January 1956 (1956-01-25)
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The Light Across the Street (French: La Lumière d'en face) is a 1956 French crime drama film directed by Georges Lacombe and starring Raymond Pellegrin, Roger Pigaut and Brigitte Bardot. It was also distributed in the U.S. under the title Female and the Flesh.
Plot
Sensual young Brigitte Bardot and her infirm husband run a small trucker restaurant in this Clouzot- influenced melodrama, before you can say The Postman Always Rings Twice, Brigitte feels attracted to a mechanic from the garage opposite
Cast
- Raymond Pellegrin as Georges Marceau
- Roger Pigaut as Piétri
- Brigitte Bardot as Olivia Marceau
- Claude Romain as Barbette
- Jean Debucourt as Professor Nieumer
- Antonin Berval as Albert (as Berval)
- Daniel Ceccaldi as L'amoureux en panne
- Guy Piérauld as Antoine
- Lucien Hubert as Gaspard
- Guy Pierauld as Antoine (as Guy Pierrault)
References
- ^ Box office information of film at Box Office Story
External links
- The Light Across the Street at IMDb
- Review of film at New York Times
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Films directed by Georges Lacombe
- Bubble Gum (1931)
- A Telephone Call (1932)
- That Scoundrel Morin (1932)
- The Invisible Woman (1933)
- Youth (1934)
- The Scandalous Couple (1935)
- The Happy Road (1936)
- The Heart Disposes (1936)
- Café de Paris (1938)
- Behind the Facade (1939)
- Musicians of the Sky (1940)
- Paris-New York (1940)
- They Were Twelve Women (1940)
- The Last of the Six (1941)
- Montmartre (1941)
- The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock (1942)
- Monsieur La Souris (1942)
- The Stairs Without End (1943)
- Florence Is Crazy (1944)
- Land Without Stars (1946)
- Martin Roumagnac (1946)
- Convicted (1948)
- Prelude to Glory (1950)
- The Night Is My Kingdom (1951)
- The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
- The Call of Destiny (1953)
- Their Last Night (1953)
- The Light Across the Street (1956)
- White Cargo (1958)
- My Darned Father (1958)
- L'âme de Nicolas Synders (1961)
- L'âne et le boeuf (1962)
- Message pour Margaret (1964)
- La fabrique du roi (1965)
- Le réquisitionnaire (1968)
- Pierre de Ronsard, gentilhomme vendômois (1970)
- Les mensonges (1971)
- Une atroce petite musique (1973)
- Un souper chez Lauzun (1973)
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