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Port of Shadows. Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean (Jean Gabin), an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.
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Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.
A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city. Life's a rotten business, says Jean, a deserter who arrives at night in Le Havre, looking to leave the country.
A military deserter finds love, trouble and a small dog in a foggy Le Havre - the Port of Shadows. Director: Marcel Carné Writer: Pierre Dumarchais, Jacques Prévert
Jul 19, 2004 · A gun battle soon breaks out—some gangsters are after Michel Simon, sporting the beard he wore seven years earlier in Jean Renoir’s La Chienne, (1931)—and you can’t quite tell whether it’s meant to be sinister or comical or both.
Synopsis. On a foggy night, Jean (Jean Gabin), an army deserter, catches a ride to the port city of Le Havre. Hoping to start over, Jean finds himself in a lonely bar at the far edge of town.
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Carné conjures port city Le Havre as a dreamy, self-contained island of fate where fog rolls by and windows glow at night, the plaintive horns of ships constantly reminding us of all the possibilities lost.
