Quai des Orfevre. (C) This is a French film originally released in 1947 and now showing at an art-house theater here in town. The local newspaper gave it a glowing review as an early film noir, so I thought I'd check it out. As a look at life in France just after the war, it has some interest. The plot and characters, however, are not that interesting. Nightclub singer Jenny is married to her piano-playing accompanist Maurice, an average shlub with a jealous streak. Her looks attract not-purely-professional attention from some unsavory characters, and her ambition won't let her shoo them away. This drives Maurice crazy, and then one of her admirers turns up dead. A world-weary but relentless detective is then on the case and hot on Maurice's trail. Not bad, but not great.