Behind the Facade

Behind the Facade

85 mins | Drama, Crime | March 14, 1939

The owner of an apartment building is found murdered. Two rival policemen, Boucheron and Lambert, investigate the matter and get into the private lives of the tenants: an unfaithful judge, a crippled blind man and his daughter, an eccentric knife thrower, a shoplifter (and proud of it!), a bourgeois lady who has a bone to pick with a gigolo, a mistress who cheats on her lover, not forgetting the caretaker and a soldier in love.

Behind the Facade

85 mins | Drama, Crime | March 14, 1939

Behind the Facade
The owner of an apartment building is found murdered. Two rival policemen, Boucheron and Lambert, investigate the matter and get into the private lives of the tenants: an unfaithful judge, a crippled blind man and his daughter, an eccentric knife thrower, a shoplifter (and proud of it!), a bourgeois lady who has a bone to pick with a gigolo, a mistress who cheats on her lover, not forgetting the caretaker and a soldier in love.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Régina
Original title Derrière la façade
Directors Georges Lacombe, Yves Mirande
Writers

Cast

Michel Simon

as Picking

Jules Berry

as Alfrédo d'Avila

Gaby Morlay

as Gaby

Elvira Popescu

as Madame Rameau

Lucien Baroux

as le commissaire Boucheron

Jacques Baumer

as l'inspecteur Lambert / Lambert

André Lefaur

as Corbeau

Betty Stockfeld

as l'anglaise

Gaby Sylvia

as Madeleine

Simone Berriau

as Lydia

Missia

as Joséphine Picking

Raymond Segard

as Robert Bernier

Marcel Orluc

as Gérard Bernier

Jean Daurand

as Le télégraphiste

Elmire Vautier

as Marie, l'habilleuse de Lydia

Lina Darwils

as Une locataire

Robert Ozanne

as Le brigadier

Claude Sainval

as Le gigolo de Gaby

Raymone

as La bonne de Madame Mathieu

Joffre

as Monsieur Martin, l'aveugle

Lise Courbet

as Paulette

Andrex

as André Laurent, l'employé de banque

Julien Carette

as Le soldat

Aimé Clariond

as Le président Bernier

Jacques Dumesnil

as Albert Durant, le jouer de poker

Paul Faivre

as Le concierge

Marcel Simon

as Jules, l'amant de Gaby

Gabrielle Dorziat

as Madame Bernier

Marguerite Moreno

as La sous-directrice

Georges Bever

as Un chauffeur de taxi (uncredited)

Rivers Cadet

as Un agent (uncredited)

Roger Doucet

as (uncredited)

Hélène Flouest

as (uncredited)

Georges Malkine

as Un chauffeur de taxi (uncredited)

Franck Maurice

as Un agent (uncredited)

Yves Mirande

as Le clochard sur le banc (uncredited)

Robert Moor

as Un agent (uncredited)

Henri Nassiet

as (uncredited)

Jean Wiener

as Le pianiste au cabaret (uncredited)