5/10
an early Raoul André ...
16 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers
... and not a comic one, it's rather melo with violin music, telling the story of a missionary helping prostitutes, it could have been directed by Maurice Cloche. Not an action movie at all. We see very young Philippe Lemaire, beautiful Nicole Courcel,Raoul André's wife Louise Carletti. And a very soft and sensitive Raymond Pellegrin, that might not be for everybody. Most of the action seems to take place in Pigalle, there is a nice little action scene but this movie is quite boring, I prefer Raoul André's lousy but entertaining comedies. Marchandes d'Illusions is the first movie directed by Raoul André showing a gang of women, he will do better the following year with the action-packed Les Pépées Font La Loi, finding his touch for comedies.

We get really lucky, next month we get Raoul André's next movie, "Les Clandestines", still with Nicole Courcel and Philippe Lemaire and also Dominique Wilms.
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