If you liked this movie, you should also see: On the Waterfront (1954)Le quai des brumes (1938)Rocco and His Brothers (1960)In the Heat of the Night (1967)Paths of Glory (1957)
The winner of the Louis Delluc Prize as the most outstanding French photo-play of 1936, as selected by the Young Independent Critics of France (an organization and not a description.) The film treats the imprisoning hold of poverty; the disheartening odds of people rising from such social despair, and the ease in which those in the upper spheres of Society may descend.