Why Women Sin

Why Women Sin

Drama, Crime | Aug. 6, 1958

La moucharde stars Dany Carrel as a young miss who loves neither wisely nor well. Duped into a life of crime, Carrel remains on the wrong side of the Law because she's hopelessly in love with a two-bit crook. Soon she becomes as jaded and hardened as her criminal cohorts. When the police threaten to throw her in the Bastille, Carrel agrees to turn informer, with the expected disastrous results.

Why Women Sin

Drama, Crime | Aug. 6, 1958

Why Women Sin
La moucharde stars Dany Carrel as a young miss who loves neither wisely nor well. Duped into a life of crime, Carrel remains on the wrong side of the Law because she's hopelessly in love with a two-bit crook. Soon she becomes as jaded and hardened as her criminal cohorts. When the police threaten to throw her in the Bastille, Carrel agrees to turn informer, with the expected disastrous results.
Producers Les Films Artistiques Français, Les Films Marius Bouchet
Original title La moucharde
Directors Guy Lefranc, Bernard Toublanc-Michel
Writers Christian Coffinet, Jacques Séverac, Guy Lefranc, Georges Tabet, André Tabet

Cast

Dany Carrel

as Betty Lefébure

Georges Chamarat

as Jeweler

Henri Crémieux

as Mr. Eddy

Noël Roquevert

as Maître Perceval

Pierre Vaneck

as Frédéric Martignac, aka Fred

Yves Deniaud

as Parola, second-hand dealer

Florence Blot

as Mrs. Michaud

Maurice Chevit

as Consumer (uncredited)

Yvonne Clech

as Lucienne

Paul Crauchet

as Photograph

Albert Dinan

as Lefébure, father of Betty

Jean Morel

as Commissioner Mallet

Fernand Sardou

as Mario the Toulonnais

Serge Sauvion

as Maurice

André Weber

as Jeannot

Jacques Dhéry

as (uncredited)

Lisa Jouvet

as (uncredited)