The Light Across the Street

The Light Across the Street is a 1956 French crime drama film directed by Georges Lacombe and starring Raymond Pellegrin, Roger Pigaut and Brigitte Bardot. It was also distributed in the U.S. under the title Female and the Flesh. Plot Sensual young Brigitte Bardot and her infirm husband run a small trucker restaurant in this Clouzot- influenced melodrama, before you can say The Postman Always Rings Twice, Brigitte feels attracted to a mechanic from the garage opposite Cast Raymond Pellegrin as Georges Marceau Roger Pigaut as Piétri Brigitte Bardot as Olivia Marceau Claude Romain as Barbette Jean Debucourt as Professor Nieumer Antonin Berval as Albert (as Berval) Daniel Ceccaldi as L'amoureux en panne Guy Piérauld as Antoine Lucien Hubert as Gaspard Guy Pierauld as Antoine (as Guy Pierrault) References