Service Entrance (1954 film)

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Escalier de service
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Directed by Carlo Rim
Written byCarlo Rim
Jean Le Vitte
Produced by Alain Poiré
Paul Wagner
Starring Etchika Choureau
Danielle Darrieux
Robert Lamoureux
Cinematography Robert Juillard
Edited by
Music by Georges Van Parys
Production
companies
Films Paul Wagner
Gaumont
Distributed byGaumont
Release date
  • 16 August 1954 (1954-08-16)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Service Entrance (French: Escalier de service) is a 1954 French comedy drama film directed and written by Carlo Rim and starring Etchika Choureau, Danielle Darrieux and Robert Lamoureux. [1] [2] It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and at the Louvre Museum. The film's sets were designed by the art director Serge Piménoff.

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Walking alone and looking desperate, young Marie-Lou (Etchika Choureau) is taken in hand by Léo, a street photographer and his squatter friends. They all want to know what happened to her, so to satisfy their curiosity, Marie-Lou starts recounting her unfortunate experiences as a housemaid. On account of adverse circumstances, she tells them, she lost all of the jobs she had in five different families. To crown it all, the young man she has fallen in love with, a brilliant artist, is in prison. [3]

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References

  1. Service Entrance at IMDb OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. The A to Z of French Cinema p.116
  3. "Service Entrance (1954) - Plot Summary". IMDb . Amazon . Retrieved 21 January 2020.

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