The Lost Girl (French: La fille perdue) is a 1954 French drama film directed by Jean Gourguet and starring Claudine Dupuis, Gérard Landry and Robert Berri. It combines elements of melodrama and film noir. Location shooting took place around Noirmoutier-en-l'ÃÂle and Nantes.
A sixteen year old village girl Marguerite becomes pregnant by a tourist. She heads to find work in Nantes to support her child, but life is hard and she ends up working in a rough bar for sailors for many years. It is there she falls under the influence of Pierre, who involves her with a gang of smugglers. It is with the assistance of her childhood friend Jean-Marie that Marguerite eventually recovers.