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Inside a Girls' Dormitory

Country: France, Language: French, 95 mins

Original Title

Dortoir des Grandes
  • Director: Henri Decoin
  • Writer: Francois Chalais; Henri Decoin
  • Producer: Raymond Eger

CGiii Comment

Detective Marco is assigned to investigate a murder that has occurred at an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls. The victim is a popular, wealthy girl found strangled in her bed. The school director tells Marco she expects him to find the killer outside of the school, and she bristles at his insistent interrogations of the school staff and the students. Marco learns that two sadistic games were played the night of the murder and that the victim had been tied up.

There are a number of suspects, including a teacher with an unnatural affection for one of the girls; a suspicious Spanish gentleman at the town-inn, and some of the pupils themselves. The dead girl's best friend gives the detective the victim's letters and some films. At a showing of the films, there is a sequence where an elderly, mild-mannered teacher is shown kissing with the disreputable town photographer.


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Cast & Characters

Jean Marais as Inspecteur Desire Marco;
Francoise Arnoul as Aimee de La Capelle;
Denise Grey as Mme. Hazard-Habran - La directrice;
Jeanne Moreau as Julie - la serveuse;
Noel Roquevert as Emile - L'aubergiste;
Line Noro as Mlle. Brigitte Tournesac;
Katherine Kath as Mlle Claude Persal;
Louis de Funes as Le photographe Triboudot;
Humberto Almazan as Da Costa;
Pierre Morin as Inspecteur Broche;
Jean Sylvere as Le receveur;
Dany Carrel as Bettina de virmant;
Nicole Gamma as Martine - Une pensionnaire;
Michele Nancey as Michele;
Monique Arthur as Emma Lestandier