The Road to Shame

The Road to Shame

85 mins | Thriller | April 30, 1959

Pierre Rossi and Béatrice live in the same block of flats in Marseille and love each other. One night, Béatrice leaves her apartment. Pierre knows that his fiancée goes to a rendezvous, but she would not tell him more than just that. Worried, Pierre follows her but he is attacked and stolen his identity papers by two men, Tom and Nasol, on the payroll of Quaglio, one of the city's bosses. Later on, Quaglio kills Nasol and deposits the body in a garage, leaving Pierre's papers nearby. As for Pierre, he manages to follow Tom to a villa where several young women have been invited. Pierre, horrified, realizes that this place is the headquarters for the white slave trade. - Written by Guy Bellinger

The Road to Shame

85 mins | Thriller | April 30, 1959

The Road to Shame
Pierre Rossi and Béatrice live in the same block of flats in Marseille and love each other. One night, Béatrice leaves her apartment. Pierre knows that his fiancée goes to a rendezvous, but she would not tell him more than just that. Worried, Pierre follows her but he is attacked and stolen his identity papers by two men, Tom and Nasol, on the payroll of Quaglio, one of the city's bosses. Later on, Quaglio kills Nasol and deposits the body in a garage, leaving Pierre's papers nearby. As for Pierre, he manages to follow Tom to a villa where several young women have been invited. Pierre, horrified, realizes that this place is the headquarters for the white slave trade. - Written by Guy Bellinger
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Les Productions Jacques Roitfeld, La Société des Films Sirius
Original title Des femmes disparaissent
Directors Claude Levillain, Édouard Molinaro
Writers Gilles Morris-Dumoulin, Albert Simonin

Cast

Robert Hossein

as Pierre Rossi

Magali Noël

as Coraline Merlin

Estella Blain

as Béatrice

Philippe Clay

as Tom

Jane Marken

as Mrs. Cassini

Robert Lombard

as Merlin

François Darbon

as Camille

Pierre Collet

as Nasol

Jean Juillard

as Lambert

William Sabatier

as Carel

Anita Treyens

as Brigitte

Monique Vita

as Nina

Claudie Laurence

as Jacqueline

Liliane Dreyfus

as Madeleine

Jacques Dacqmine

as Victor Quaglio

Marcel Bernier

as Inspector Thomas (uncredited)

Jacques Seiler

as Policeman in the car (uncredited)