Pigs Are Seldom Clean

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Pigs Are Seldom Clean
French	On n'engraisse pas les cochons à l'eau claire
Directed by	Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Written by	Jean-Pierre Lefebvre
Produced by	Marguerite Duparc Claude Godbout
Starring	Jean-René Ouellet Louise Cuerrier Maryse Pelletier
Cinematography	Guy Dufaux
Edited by	Marguerite Duparc
Production companies	Les Productions Prisma Cinak
Distributed by	Disci
Release date	November 15, 1973 (1973-11-15)
Running time	112 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

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."^[3]