Nights Of Shame

Love and shame are set against the background of the Parisian underworld as Pascal plays a social worker trying to rehabilitate prostitutes. Pellegrin and his artist friend Lemaire both become enchanted with two of the "ladies of the night," unaware of their former profession. Carletti,

Lemaire's girl, comes under suspicion when her older friend Manes is murdered by Carletti's ex-employer, gangster Ardan, who is then killed in an auto accident. Pascal tries to clear the girl's name by telling police that Lemaire and Carletti were together at the time of the murder. Eventually

Lemaire and Pellegrin discover the former professions of their respective loves and, though the latter is accepting of this, Lemaire is appalled and leaves Carletti. The film opened in France seven years earlier than the US release.