Pre-Code Paris where cops don't play by the rules and femme fatales wear gloves that kill.
The story is about a drug ring and the finally successful efforts of the Paris police to break it up. A young detective goes into a den in Paris' Chinatown, following a clue, and that is the last seen of him until his body is found floating in the Seine several days later. The only clue is a woman's glove. The dead man's friends on the force vow to avenge him, and receive information leading them to suspect one Sandra, a beautiful foreigner, played by the stunning Marcelle Chantal.
Direction
Tourneur's shadow-drenched Paris streets before his son perfected noir.
Acting
Chantal's Sandra—dangerous, elusive, the blueprint for every femme fatale.
Cinematography
Chinatown dens and Seine corpses shot with unflinching poetry.
Director
Maurice Tourneur
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