Passport to Shame

A French girl becomes embroiled in a life of prostitution.

• Diana Dors as Vicki
• Herbert Lom as Nick Biaggi
• Eddie Constantine as Johnny McVey
• Odile Versois as Marie Louise 'Malou' Beaucaire
• Brenda De Banzie as Aggie
• Robert Brown as Mike
• Elwyn Brook-Jones as Solicitor Heath
• Jackie Collins as English girl
• Lana Morris as Girl
• Steve Plytas as French Restaurant Manager
• Cyril Shaps as Willie
• Denis Shaw as Mac
• Margaret Tyzack as June, Heath's secretary
• Joan Sims as Miriam, Phone operator in the taxi office
• Michael Caine as Man getting married (uncredited)
• Anne Reid as Woman getting married (uncredited)
• Maurice Bush as client, dream sequence (uncredited)
• Emil Stemler as waiter (uncredited)

"This was not a low budget film," said director Alvin Rakoff, "this was a lowest budget film." When the lighting cut-out during a key scene, the filming had to continue.

The film itself is remarkable for the introduction of new talent. Michael Caine in a role so small he is not credited. He had, like Sean Connery and others, previously worked as walk-ons with the director. Jackie Collins, later an acclaimed novelist and the sister of Joan, played one of many prostitutes. Joan Sims also has a cameo.

Nicolas Roeg, director of Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth, etc., was the camera operator. Alvin Rakoff, a renowned television director, was keen to break the then heavily imposed glass ceiling between the small screen and feature films. He therefore accepted the assignment knowing it to be an exploitation film.

The Los Angeles Times said "the picture is rather well done".[4]

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