Palace of Shame

Original title: Crime au Concert Mayol

1954
1h 37m

IMDb RATING

5.2/10

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Crime Drama

After a performance at the Concert Mayol, a Parisian music hall, dancer Mado is poisoned with arsenic and transported to hospital, and survives. Immediately the rumors run behind the scene.After a performance at the Concert Mayol, a Parisian music hall, dancer Mado is poisoned with arsenic and transported to hospital, and survives. Immediately the rumors run behind the scene.After a performance at the Concert Mayol, a Parisian music hall, dancer Mado is poisoned with arsenic and transported to hospital, and survives. Immediately the rumors run behind the scene.

Director
- Pierre Méré
Writers
- Jacques Chabannes
- Lucien Rimels
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IMDb RATING

5.2/10

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Director
- Pierre Méré
Writers
- Jacques Chabannes
- Lucien Rimels
Stars

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Claude Godard

Mado

Jean-Pierre Kérien

Inspecteur Million
(as Jean-Pierre Kerien)

Daniel Clérice

Max
(as Daniel Clerice)

Robert Berri

Fred

Jean Tissier

M Grumeau

Jean Daurand

Bill

Ariane Lancell

La danseuse
(as Ariane Lancel dans ses danses)

Paul Demange

Nestor

Fernand Gilbert

L'imprésario

Charles Roy

Le commissaire

Christian Lude

Le médecin

Monique Vivin

Magda

Gina Manès

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Director
- Pierre Méré
Writers
- Jacques Chabannes
- Lucien Rimels
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dbdumonteil

second-rate music hall and a nothing story

This would be thriller is actually a pretext to show plenty of numbers at the "Concert Mayol" music hall;also an excuse for displaying lots of topless women ;for a 1954 movie,it's really,so to speak,a record! Instant karma: the movie got a NC 18 ,and the Office Catholique Du Cinéma forbade their flock the movie .Needless to say ,today,it wouldn't shock a twelve-year-old .

As for the story ,it's abysmal : a dancer is the victim of a murder attempt ,soon to be followed by another one,who ,this time ,is killed .The inept screenplay involves an old bachelor ,fond of little women (Jean Tissier,in one his worst roles),bad things which happened in Brazil,blackmail,big chief and all the usual clichés .

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