Jacques Constant directed his first film Campement 13 in 1940, and he only directed another one 2 years later in Argentina. As a writer, he wrote Jenny with the master Jacques Prévert and the adaptation of Pépé Le Moko. That must have influenced him to write and direct Campement 13, the story of an area with workers building boats. A lovely woman named Greta arrives and men get mad about, lot of tension and fights between them and not on a melodramatic tone. Quite strong and sharp. There is even a reference to Marcel Carné.
The cast is all great : Gabriel Gabrio, Alice Field, Paul Azaïs, Sylvia Bataille. And as a camera operator, Monsieur Henri Alekan. Nice surprise.
