Lawless Roads

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Lawless Roads
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Directed by Guillaume Radot
Written by Francis Vincent-Bréchignac
Produced byHubert Vincent-Bréchignac
Starring
Cinematography Georges Million
Edited by Pierre Caillet
Music by Maurice Thiriet
Production
company
Films Guillaume Radot
Distributed byFilms Roger Richebé
Release date
17 June 1947
Running time
83 minutes
CountryFrance
Language French

Lawless Roads (French: Chemins sans loi) is a 1947 French drama film directed by Guillaume Radot and starring Ginette Leclerc, Jean Murat and Marguerite Moreno. [1] It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Marcel Magniez.

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Inès, a gypsy has a relationship with a landowner but he abandons her. Pregnant she falls in with a gang of horse thieves, and brings up her daughter Dolorès amongst them.

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