Port of Point-du-Jour

Port of Point-du-Jour

April 13, 1960

Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of machine gun fire. The cafe in the corner of the street has been burglarized.A distraught young girl rushes into his apartment building and hides in his room .When the police make a search, he makes her out to be his lover for the night.Madeleine tells her about her sad past : she has severed all links with her parents ,she's an unwed mother and in the underworld's clutches. Emile sends his protegee to old mommy Dupont's place ,in the suburbs of Paris.

Port of Point-du-Jour

April 13, 1960

Port of Point-du-Jour
Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of machine gun fire. The cafe in the corner of the street has been burglarized.A distraught young girl rushes into his apartment building and hides in his room .When the police make a search, he makes her out to be his lover for the night.Madeleine tells her about her sad past : she has severed all links with her parents ,she's an unwed mother and in the underworld's clutches. Emile sends his protegee to old mommy Dupont's place ,in the suburbs of Paris.
Producers
Original title Quai du Point-du-Jour
Directors Jean Faurez
Writers

Cast

Dany Carrel

as Madeleine aka Mado

Raymond Bussières

as Émile Dupont

Annette Poivre

as Mirabelle

Philippe Lemaire

as André aka 'Dédé'

Bernard Lajarrige

as Robert Flic

Yves Massard

as François

Robert Dalban

as Dominique

Pierre Collet

as Coco, a worker

Bob Ingarao

as A worker

Jacques Fayet

as Jimmy

Sophie Sel

as Sophie

Lucien Hubert

as A worker

Edmond Ardisson

as Monsieur Gaston, the bistro

Henri Charrett

as The fake sent from the Renault factories

Cheni

as Marcel

Alice Tissot

as The concierge

Paul Frankeur

as Monsieur Pierre

Claude Achard

as (uncredited)

Max Amyl

as A worker (uncredited)

Jacques Bertrand

as A worker (uncredited)

Robert Blome

as A foreman (uncredited)

Jacques Hilling

as A worker (uncredited)

Georges Montant

as (uncredited)