The Night Affair

The Night Affair

1958 · 93 min · FR · NR · 6.5 (35 votes)
Dir. Gilles Grangier · Starring Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Nadja Tiller, Paul Frankeur, Hazel Scott, Robert Manuel · Music Jean Yatove

Paris Before Dawn - The end of an interlude of love, lust and murder...running its course while the city sleeps. As if terrified by the light of day...it waits, only to return under cover of another night.

CrimeThrillerRomance

Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be more victim than criminal. Taking it upon himself to wean Lucky away from narcotics, Vallois also wins her love -- and, incidentally, smashes the dope ring responsible for her addiction.

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A smoky, rain-slicked Paris night. A detective's obsession with a damaged woman ignites a dangerous, doomed romance. It's a world of shadows, addiction, and the desperate search for escape, wrapped in a stylish, melancholic embrace.

noirmelancholictenseromanticsteadyclassic noirParisian atmospheregritty realismstylishaddictionobsessionredemptionforbidden love
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