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'La mme vert-de-gris' (French for "The Greyish-Green Dame"), released in the USA as 'Poison Ivy', is a 1953 French crime film.

It was French director Bernard Borderie's first film, as well as American-born French actor Eddie Constantine's. The screenplay is based the on the 1937 Lemmy Caution thriller 'Poison Ivy' by Peter Cheyney, which had been in 1945 the first title published in Marcel Duhamel's 'Srie noire'. The story involves FBI agent Caution investigating gold smuggling activity in Casablanca.

Crew



* Director: Bernard Borderie

* Screenplay: Bernard Borderie and Jacques Berland

* Assistant director: Andr Smagghe

* Cinematography: Jacques Lemare

* Music: Guy Lafarge

Cast



* Eddie Constantine - Lemmy Caution

* Dominique Wilms - Carlotta de la Rue

* Howard Vernon - Rudy Saltierra

* Daro Moreno - Joe Madrigal

* Maurice Ronet - Mickey

* Nicolas Vogel - Kerts

* Philippe Hersent - Le commissaire

* Jess Hahn - Le marin-geolier

* Gaston Modot - L'inspecteur #1

* Paul Azas - Le patron du bistrot

Synopsis



Set in Casablanca, it recycles aspects of the atmospheric noirish French films of the 1930s together with pulp-fiction American detective films of the post-war period. Considered either "tongue-in-cheek" or "doddery", the film "utilizes all the rules of the genre, albeit without convictions: chases, fistfights, nightclubs, unusual settings, knowing winks at the public".

It was a commercial success in France (3,846,158 French entries in 1953) and was followed by 7 other Lemmy Caution films until 1967, not counting Jean-Luc Godard's "incomprehensible" 'Alphaville, a strange adventure of Lemmy Caution', casting Constantine and Vernon. Constantine's enduring success started with this. This film was considered "emblematic of French postwar attitudes towards the United States: a fascination for U.S. culture tempered by fear of U.S. dominance".

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