A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
Simone Simon
as Diane
James Stewart
as Chico
Jean Hersholt
as Father Chevillon
Gregory Ratoff
as Boul the Cab Driver
Gale Sondergaard
as Nana, Diane's Sister
J. Edward Bromberg
as Aristide the Astrologer
John Qualen
as Sewer Rat
Victor Kilian
as Gobin
Thomas Beck
as Brissac
Sig Ruman
as Durand (as Sig Rumann)
Mady Christians
as Marie
Rollo Lloyd
as Matoot
