Amants du Tage, Les (1955)

Director:

Henri Verneuil

Writers:

Jacques Companéez (writer)
Joseph Kessel (novel)

Release Date:

18 January 1955 (Portugal)

Genre:

Romance | Drama

Plot:

He is a French taxi driver in Lisbon carrying the scars of a wife's infidelity that ended in tragedy...

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Cast

Daniel Gélin	...	Pierre Roubier
Françoise Arnoul	...	Kathleen Dinver
Trevor Howard	...	Inspector Lewis
Marcel Dalio	...	Porfirio (as Dalio)
Amália Rodrigues	...	Amália
Jacques Moulières	...	Manuel (as Le petit Jacques Moulière)
Ginette Leclerc	...	Maria
Georges Chamarat	...	L'avocat (as Georges Chamarat, sociétaire de la Comédie Française)
Betty Stockfeld	...	Maisie
Jaime Santos
Aram Stephan
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Artur Ramos	...	Government Officer

Also Known As:

Lovers' Net
The Lovers of Lisbon (UK)

Runtime:

123 min | Portugal:109 min (cut version)

Country:

France

Language:

French

Colour:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Lisbon, Portugal

Company:

ECC

Trivia:

After cutting over 15% of the film's length, Portuguese censors passed the film in 1955, but conservative critics attacked it even so, for lacking production values and showing too much. Manuel Pina wrote: "The word 'love' should not be used relating to this film. Love is not sensuality. In this film, 'to love' means something else, that morality prevents us to speak about."

Movie Connections:

Version of Amants du Tage, Les (1992) (TV)

After seeing it once, I've been searching for this movie for forty-some years, hoping to find out if it is as good as I remember.this movie once,

I saw "Les Amants du Tage" (though I could have sworn it was then "Port Something") sometime in the mid-1950s at one of the fleabag theatres on West 42nd Street in NYC. It was the lesser half of a double-bill with "The Light Across the Street," which introduced Brigitte Bardot (to me, at least) and which in my recollection was notable for nothing else.

In the mid-1950s I wasn't yet conditioned to accept as a hero a guy who in his opening scene blows two people away. By his closing scene, though, I was rooting for him and his girl and hoping they would somehow win out over the implacable force of destiny.

Very gripping little movie, deserving to be seen.