Pigs Are Seldom Clean (1973)
1h 52m
Running Time
November 15, 1973Release Date
Pigs Are Seldom Clean (1973)
1h 52m
Running Time
November 15, 1973Release Date
Plot.
The true identity of an undercover RCMP narcotics agent is discovered by the criminals he is investigating and his family pays the price.
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Release DateNovember 15, 1973
Original NameOn n'engraisse pas les cochons à l'eau claire
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 52m
Budget$48,000
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Pigs Are Seldom Clean (French: On n'engraisse pas les cochons à l'eau claire, lit. "One Doesn't Fatten Pigs in Clean Water") is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre and released in 1973. The film stars Jean-René Ouellet as Bob Tremblay, an undercover Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer in Hull, Quebec, whose fiancée Hélène is kidnapped and raped by the criminal gang he is infiltrating after his identity is discovered.The film's cast also includes Marthe Nadeau, Maryse Pelletier, J.-Léo Gagnon, Jean-Pierre Saulnier, Louise Cuerrier and Denys Arcand.
Jay Scott of The Globe and Mail characterized the film as "Lefebvre's only melodrama, a film that could almost be a product of the new German Cinema."