Leave it to Andy Milligan's distributor William Mishkin to take a seven-year-old French film, Crime au Concert Mayol, and dust it off for a grindhouse run as Palace of Nudes (1961). AKA Palace of Shame, it's set at former Paris cabaret and strip club the Concert Mayol. Comely Claude Godard, who later graced Julian Duvivier's The Female (1958) with Brigitte Bardot, is the cabaret's leading striptease artist Mado, survivor of a poisoning attempt and pawn in a murder investigation. Also with Jean-Pierre Kérien from Alain Resnais' Muriel (1963), cast here as a bumbling inspector, and Robert Berri (the 1947 Fantômas) as drug-dealing pimp Fred. The same year, Mishkin issued another of director Pierre Méré's potboilers, the 1955 Impasse des vertus, as Love At Night.
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