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User Rating:
6.8/10   250 votes
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Director:
Douglas Sirk
Writers:
François-Eugène Vidocq (memoirs)
Ellis St. Joseph (adaptation)
Contact:
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Release Date:
19 July 1946 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure | Crime | Romance | Comedy more
Tagline:
Every man has his price... and every woman pays it.
Plot:
The autobiography of elegant criminal, François Eugène Vidocq, from his birth in a French jail in 1775... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
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Cast

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George Sanders ... Eugéne François Vidocq
Signe Hasso ... Therese De Pierremont
Carole Landis ... Loretta de Richet
Akim Tamiroff ... Emile Vernet

Gene Lockhart ... Prefect of Police Richet
Alma Kruger ... Marquise De Pierremont
Alan Napier ... Houdon De Pierremont, Police Minister
Jo Ann Marlowe ... Mimi De Pierremont
Vladimir Sokoloff ... Uncle Hugo
Pedro de Cordoba ... Priest
Leona Maricle ... Owner of Dress Shop
Fritz Leiber ... Painter
Skelton Knaggs ... Cousin Pierre
Fred Nurney ... Cousin Gabriel
Gisela Werbisek ... Aunt Ernestine (as Gisella Werbiseck)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Story of Vidocq (USA) (working title)
Thieves' Holiday (International: English title)
Vidocq (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
100 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:Approved (PCA #11036) | Sweden:15
Company:
Arnold Pressburger Films more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Eugéne François Vidocq: Try to see further than the point of your knife. If I become chief of police, we'll have a chance to loot the city.
Emile Vernet: Loot a city? What does that mean?
Eugéne François Vidocq: Conservatively... fifteen million.
Emile Vernet: Fifteen...?
Eugéne François Vidocq: ...million... in gold.
Emile Vernet: Where is it?
Eugéne François Vidocq: In the vault of the Bank of Paris.
Emile Vernet: Bank of Paris? Hmmmnnnn... Such a job! No! Too big for the two of us!
Eugéne François Vidocq: Yes, but we can enlist the support of your dear family.
Emile Vernet: Yeah, family!... Yeah, but we'll have to give them a cut.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Vidocq (2001) more
Soundtrack:
Flame Song more

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5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Very good, funny, far better than expected, 1 January 2003
Author: trpdean from New York, New York

I was already a fan of George Sanders - but this film really gives him the witty language that he can spin under his breath better than any actor in movies. The story itself is far more interesting in its twists and turns than expected. Listen carefully - and you hear real style and imagination.

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