Great looking street scenes from Montreal shot in 1970, in The Apprentice/Fleur Bleufeaturing Susan Sarandon.
The film, by Larry Kent, tells the story of Jean Pierre who needs to earn a living. An actress befriends him and they spend time doing threesomes with a perverted older professor, meanwhile he's trying to please his steady girlfriend. He starts getting involved with a bank robber and the bank
Check out these scenes:
A cool looking streestcape of what's likely Ste. Catherine with a movie theatre and restaurant in the background.
A hilly street where his rooming house is located, which appears to be something like Wolfe below Sherbrooke,
good view of Peel just below Ste. Catherine which features a massive BBQ rooster sign,
Various shots of Crescent and De Maisonneuve and bits of Mountain.
They drive around an unrecognizable area that transforms into a familiar westbound on De Maisonneuve from about Fort, an area that has changed little.
-Cute scene shot on Peel again, near Dominion Square.
-Bad influence shows off his eight-track and the duo rob a store somewhere downtown.
-In a non-geography scene, actress Dorothy Davis steals a scene as an English teacher.
-A good looking scene shot in a downtown bar terrace.
The director Kent was born in South Africa, moved to Vancouver and then came to Montreal where he did most of his films, including High from 1967. He also worked as a techie as the Gazette and raised two daughters.
The movie High was countercultural flick that starred such local notables as Melinda McCracken and beatnik-club promoter Gary Eistenkraft. They both left town after being nabbed - among several others - in a marijuana raid at Atwater and Sherbrooke a couple of years after the film came out. McCracken, who was originally from Winnipeg, returned to her home town and became quiite famous for her literary contributions.