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The Best Part

Drama

Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. Unfortunately, his health deteriorates but he refuses to follow the doctor's orders as well as the advice of Micheline, a young nurse who has fallen in love with him. However, driven by the evolution of his illness, Philippe finally makes up his mind to go down to the valley for a treatment. On the very day of his departure though, a young Arab worker gets killed in a rock crusher...

Date: 12/30/1955

Rating: 6.8

Cast: Gérard Philipe, Michèle Cordoue, Georges Chamarat, Umberto Spadaro, Valeria Moriconi, Olivier Hussenot, Alberto Bonucci, Jean Lefebvre, Jean-Jacques Lécot, Michel François, Robert Bazil, Jess Hahn, Mohamed Ziani, Augusto Mingione, Marcel Bozzuffi, Georges Hubert, Louis Velle, Jacques Moulières, Giacomo Furia, Lina Furia, Gino Marturano, Gabriel Gobin, Charles Denner, Pierre Massiot, Émile Genevois, Gérard Oury, Paola Borboni, Raymond Brun, Olivier Darrieux, Georges Galley, Gérard Hernandez, Jacques Morlaine, Madame Pâquerette

Gérard Philipe