{{Infobox film | name = The Backstreet Six | native_name = {{Infobox name module|fr|Comme les six doigts de la main}} | image = Affiche_86_Comme_les_6_doigts_de_la_main_Fr.jpg | alt = Film poster | caption = | director = André Melançon | producer = Marcia Couëlle<br>Claude Godbout | writer = André Melançon | starring = Éric Beauséjour<br>Philippe Bouchard<br>Caroline Laroche<br>Daniel Murray<br>José Neves<br>Nancy Normandin<br>Sylvain Provencher | music = Pierick Houdy | cinematography = Guy Dufaux | editing = André Corriveau | studio = Les Productions Prisma | distributor = France Film | released = {{film date|1978|11|05}} | runtime = 74 minutes | country = Canada | language = French | budget = | gross = }}
'''''The Backstreet Six''''' ({{langx|fr|Comme les six doigts de la main}}, lit. "Like the Six Fingers of a Hand") is a Canadian children's comedy film, directed by André Melançon and released in 1978.<ref name=pratley>Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. {{ISBN|1-894073-21-5}}. p. 126.</ref> The film centres on a group of five young children who are submitting a newcomer to their neighbourhood to an initiation test to determine whether he will be welcome to join their group of friends, while the group are simultaneously on the trail of an older man whom they believe to be a spy.<ref>Charles-Henri Ramond, [https://www.filmsquebec.com/films/comme-les-six-doigts-de-la-main-andre-melancon/ "Comme les six doigts de la main – Film d’André Melançon"]. ''Films du Québec'', January 15, 2009.</ref>
The film's cast includes Éric Beauséjour, Philippe Bouchard, Caroline Laroche, Daniel Murray, José Neves, Nancy Normandin and Sylvain Provencher.
The film won the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma in 1978.<ref>"Prix L.E. Ouimet-Molson". ''Ciné-Bulles'', Vol. 4, No. 5, February/March 1985. p. 17.</ref>
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