Based on a 1947 play by famed existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, La Putain Respectueuse is a low-budget French drama set in the U.S. deep south from the tag team of Charles Brabant and Marcello Pagliero. It stars Barbara Laage from Truffaut's Bed and Board as Lizzie McKay, a hooker who witnesses a racially-motivated killing and is then coerced into fingering an innocent black man as the culprit to protect the true killer, a senator's nephew. Also with Ivan Desny from Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun and jaunty Jacques Hilling (Clouzot's Diabolique). The 1957 English-language release was poorly received, partly due to shoddy, unconvincing dubbing, and is best remembered for the noir-ish cinematography from the masterful Eugen Schüfftan (Eyes Without A Face).
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