Chicken Feed for Little Birds
Synopsis
Monsieur Armand appears to be a respectable man and is the owner of a large house in Paris. He is in fact a gangster who bought the house with money from a hold-up a few years back. He keeps the rest of the money hidden in a room full of birds and rents out the other rooms to various tenants. Mademoiselle Lucie works in a cabaret. She loves money, which she obtains by playing the part of mistress to Louis the butcher. The money that Louis gives her soon finds its way to her other lover, an Italian who is too lazy to work. Meanwhile, Louis’s wife Antoinette has her eye on his money, which she needs to buy a guitar for Jojo, the young man who works for Louis and to whom she is obviously attracted. Finally, there is is Mademoiselle Pain, an old woman in a wheelchair who pretends she cannot walk and makes up stories about money she has hidden somewhere in the house. When Mlle Pain dies, the police are suspicious and pay more than one visit to M. Armand...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (25)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : CICC Films Borderie
- Foreign production company : Variety Film
- Associate producer : Champs-Élysées Production
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
- French distribution : SN Prodis
Full credits (19)
- Screenwriters : Marcel Carné, Jacques Sigurd
- Dialogue Writer : Jacques Sigurd
- Director of Photography : Jacques Natteau
- Music Composers : Charles Aznavour, Georges Garvarentz
- Assistant Director : Jacques Corbel
- Editor : Albert Jurgenson
- Sound Recordist : William-Robert Sivel
- Costume designer : Antoine Mayo
- Author of original work : Albert Simonin
- Producers : Raymond Borderie, Jules Borkon
- Assistant Operator : Max Lechevallier
- Camera Operator : Gilbert Chain
- Production Manager : Pierre Laurent
- Assistant editor : Jeannine Oudoul
- Continuity supervisor : Colette Robin
- Art Director : Jean-Jacques Caziot
- Production Designer : Jacques Saulnier
- Still Photographer : Walter Limot
- Location manager : Margot Capelier
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Italy)
- Production year : 1962
- French release : 15/02/1963
- Runtime : 1 h 47 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 24695
- Visa issue date : 11/02/1963
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Audio format : Mono
