Port of Shadows

Port of Shadows
original poster
Directed byMarcel Carné
Written byJacques Prévert (scenario and dialogue)
Pierre Mac Orlan (novel)
Produced byGregor Rabinovitch
StarringJean Gabin
Michel Simon
Michèle Morgan
Pierre Brasseur
CinematographyEugen Schüfftan
Edited byRené Le Hénaff
Music byMaurice Jaubert
Production
company
Franco London Films[1]
Distributed byOsso Films (France)
Film Alliance of the United States Inc. (US)
Release date
  • 18 May 1938 (1938-05-18) (France)
Running time
91 min
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Port of Shadows (French: Le Quai des brumes [lə kɛ de bʁym], "The dock of mists") is a 1938 French film directed by Marcel Carné. An example of poetic realism, it stars Jean Gabin, Michel Simon and Michèle Morgan. The screenplay was written by Jacques Prévert based on a novel by Pierre Mac Orlan.[2] The music score was by Maurice Jaubert. The film was the 1939 winner of France's top cinematic prize, the Prix Louis-Delluc.

According to Charles O'Brien, the film is one of the earliest to be called film noir by critics (1939, France).[3][4]

  1. ^ Port of Shadows at AllMovie
  2. ^ "Le Quai des brumes/Port of Shadows". filmsdefrance.com. Retrieved 2008-12-26.
  3. ^ "The Streets of Paris". www.williamahearn.com.
  4. ^ "O'Brien, Charles – Film Studies". carleton.ca.