Le Plaisir (1952)

Peter Ustinov: Narrator

Quotes 

• Narrator : I've always loved the night and darkness. I'm delighted to speak to you in the dark, as if seated right beside you - and perhaps I am.

• Narrator : [Introducing "Le Masque"]  The crowd flooded in like water into a dam. Regulars from all over Paris, of every class, came for rough, boisterous fun and debauchery. There were shop clerks, pimps, and above all, girls, dressed in the roughest cotton to the finest batiste. Rich old diamond-laden women chasing their youth and poor young girls desparate to have fun, meet men, and spend money. Men in tails, after young flesh deflowered but still desirable, prowled the excited crowd, on the hunt, sniffing out the scent.

• Narrator : [Introducing "La Maison Tellier"]  Would you like something more cheerful and warm-hearted, even a bit bawdy? A fairy tale for grown ups?

• Narrator : [Introducing "La Maison Tellier"]  How can I put it without shocking you? It was one of the "houses" - - but very well run. Men went there every night like they'd go to a café . The same six or eight would meet. Respectable men - - shopkeepers, young men of the town, They'd drink and flirt with the girls or talk to Madame, whom everyone respected.