Mauvaise Graine is a picture which was made in France, a picture I made for $100,000, with lots of a automobile chases, because it is about young automobile thieves in Paris. And I had to make all the chases out of a truck, there was no transparency to use. No transparancy for a chase - that's death. Because for a chase you would like a car to go 130 miles an hour, but I had to do it from the back of a truck, driving around Paris. It was done for no money at all. I was not shooting that picture in a studio, I was shooting that picture in a garage.
BW: /.../ But it was a sound film, you know? The dialogue must be terrible, right? How did you see this film?
CC: You can find a bootleg video copy if you root around a little.
BW: Yeah? I never saw the picture after Paris. I never saw the picture after 1934.
CC: Would you like to see a copy?
BW: No.
Conversations with Wilder (Crowe, 1999)

Excerpt from Conversations with Wilder (Crowe, 1999)