The Light Across the Street

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The Light Across the Street
Directed byGeorges Lacombe
Written byLouis Chavance
René Masson
Jacques Gaultier
(adaptation cinematographique de)
Screenplay byJacques Gauthier
Produced byJacques Gauthier
(scenario original de)
StarringRaymond Pellegrin
Roger Pigaut
Brigitte Bardot
CinematographyLouis Page
Edited byRaymond Leboursier
Music byNorbert Glanzberg
Color processBlack and white
Production
companies
Les Productions Jacques Gauthier
Les Films Fernand Rivers
Compagnie Générale Cinématographique
Général Productions
Distributed byLes Films Fernand Rivers
Release date
  • 25 January 1956 (1956-01-25)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office2,082,146 admissions (France)[1]

The Light Across the Street (French: La Lumière d'en face) is a 1956 French crime drama film directed by Georges Lacombe and starring Raymond Pellegrin, Roger Pigaut and Brigitte Bardot. It was also distributed in the U.S. under the title Female and the Flesh.

Plot[edit]

Sensual young Brigitte Bardot and her infirm husband run a small trucker restaurant in this Clouzot- influenced melodrama, before you can say The Postman Always Rings Twice, Brigitte feels attracted to a mechanic from the garage opposite

Cast[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Box office information of film at Box Office Story

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