Les petites du quai aux fleurs

Doctor Bernard Blier gets mixed up with the daughters of bookseller André Lefaur, (in his last screen role) when the youngest of the four, Odette Joyeux, imagines she is in love with her eldest sister's fiance, Louis Jourdan.

Poeple sometimes complain about American movies typecasting its stars. Here, Mlle Joyeux is, in reality nine years married and a mother, still playing a fifteen-year-old, in a movie that more than half a decade earlier, might have starred Deanna Durbin or the Lane sisters. It's a fluffy piece in line with Vichy dictates that only light fare be produced; defiance of this had gotten Clouzot interdicted for a couple of years.

It looks as if some of Marc Allegret's movie got left on the cutting room floor, as a couple of plot points are left unresolved. Perhaps the censors had some objections and the director was more concerned with his career continuing than with the doubtful artistic unity of this one.