''The Light Across the Street'' () is a 1956 French

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film directed by Georges Lacombe and starring Raymond Pellegrin, Roger Pigaut and

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. It was also distributed in the U.S. under the title ''Female and the Flesh''.

Plot

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

* Raymond Pellegrin as Georges Marceau * Roger Pigaut as Piétri *

as Olivia Marceau * Claude Romain as Barbette * Jean Debucourt as Professor Nieumer * Antonin Berval as Albert (as Berval) * Daniel Ceccaldi as L'amoureux en panne * Guy Piérauld as Antoine * Lucien Hubert as Gaspard * Guy Pierauld as Antoine (as Guy Pierrault)

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1956 films French crime drama films Films directed by Georges Lacombe Films scored by Norbert Glanzberg 1950s French-language films 1950s French films 1956 crime drama films French black-and-white films {{1950s-France-film-stub