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Poison Ivy is a french film of genre Thriller directed by Bernard Borderie with Eddie Constantine

Poison Ivy (1953)

Poison Ivy
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Length 1h37
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OriginFrance
Genres Thriller,    Crime
Rating59% 2.952822.952822.952822.952822.95282

La môme vert-de-gris (French for "The Greyish-Green Dame"), released in the USA as Poison Ivy, is a 1953 French crime film. It was French director Bernard Borderie's first film, as well as American-born French actor Eddie Constantine's. The screenplay is based the on the 1937 Lemmy Caution thriller Poison Ivy by Peter Cheyney, which had been in 1945 the first title published in Marcel Duhamel's Série noire. The story involves FBI agent Caution investigating gold smuggling activity in Casablanca.

Synopsis

Set in Casablanca, it recycles aspects of the atmospheric noirish French films of the 1930s together with pulp-fiction American detective films of the post-war period.

Actors

Eddie Constantine

(Lemmy Caution)
Dominique Wilms

(Carlotta de la Rue)
Howard Vernon

(Rudy Saltierra)
Roger Hanin

(Un homme de main de Rudy)
Darío Moreno

(Joe Madrigal)
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