Du rififi chez les femmes
- 20 May 1959 (1959-05-20) (France)
Du rififi chez les femmes ("The Riff Raff Girls") is a French-Italian film directed by Alex Joffé and released in 1959.[1]
Plot
In Brussels, rival criminal gangs confront each other. One is led by Vicky, proprietor of a nightclub on a barge; the other by Bug, who wants to reign over the lucrative nightlife business. Vicky and her gang, who are planning a bank raid, are going to see their plans confounded by Bug. In effect, he is being manipulated by a police officer who forces him to help break up a drug trafficking deal in return for keeping his residence in Belgium. Bug and Yoko will strongly compromise the bank raid, believing that it is linked to the drugs.[1]
Book
The film is based on the Auguste Le Breton novel, Du rififi chez les femmes, published in 1957 and reprinted in 2010.[2]
Production
- Director: Alex Joffé
- Screenplay: Alex Joffé, José Giovanni, Gabriel Arout, James-Jacques Mage and Auguste Le Breton from his novel Du rififi chez les femmes (1957, Presses de la Cité)
- Dialogue: Auguste Le Breton
- Music: Louiguy
- Song: Rififi, words by Charles Aznavour and music by Louiguy, sung by Nadja Tiller
- Director of photography: Pierre Montazel
- Camera Operator: Alain Douarinou
- Sound: Joseph de Bretagne
- Editing: Léonide Azar
- Set Design: Rino Mondellini
- Costumes: Pierre Balmain
- Stills photographer: Walter Limot
- Country: France, Italy
- Filming:
- Language: French
- Interiors: Studios de Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine)
- Exteriors: Brussels
- Producer: James-Jacques Mage
- Director of production: Jacques Plante
- Production companies: Les Productions de l'Étoile, Dismage, Transalpina, Technostampa
- Distribution company: Cinedis
- Aspect ratio: black and white — 35 mm — 1:37.1 — monaural
- Genre: Crime film
- Length: 110 min
- Release date: 20 May 1959
Cast
- Nadja Tiller : Vicky
- Robert Hossein : Marcel Point-Bleu
- Silvia Monfort : Yoko
- Roger Hanin : Bug
- Pierre Blanchar : "Le Pirate"
- Françoise Rosay : Berthe
- Jean Gaven : James
- Eddie Constantine : Williams
- Georges Rigaud : "Le Marquis"
- Daniel Emilfork : Luigi
- Wayne Van Voorhes : Chicago, the Sicilian
- André Cellier : the transporter
- Denise Clair : Prune
- Michel Galabru
- Lucien Raimbourg
- Maurice Garrel
- Carlo Campanini
- Tiberio Murgia
- René Alone
- Isaac Alvarez
- Léopoldo Francès
- Liliane de Kermadec
- Claude Piéplu
- Anne-Marie Coffinet
- André Berthomieu
- Yves Barsacq
References
- ^ a b c d Du rififi chez les femmes at IMDb
- ^ Éditions Plon web site: Du rififi chez les femmes (accessed 11 February 2012)
External links
- Du rififi chez les femmes at IMDb
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