A Scandal in Paris (1946)

Directors

Douglas Sirk

Cast

George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff, Gene Lockhart, Alma Kruger

The story

The rogue who would later call himself Eugène François Vidocq is born in a prison cell, the twelfth child of a woman who steals a loaf of bread each time she needs shelter to give birth. As the boy grows into a man, he is constantly in and out of jail. As the story begins, he and his cutpurse cellmate and associate, Emile Vernet, escape using a file hidden in a birthday cake provided by Vernet's aunt Ernestine.

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