The Best Part

The Best Part (1955)

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...

Director: Yves Allégret

Casts

	Gérard Philipe as Philippe Perrin
	Michèle Cordoue as Micheline
	Georges Chamarat as Lemoigne
	Umberto Spadaro as Gino
	Valeria Moriconi as Odette
	Olivier Hussenot as Colombin
	Alberto Bonucci as Antoine
	Jean Lefebvre as Raymond
	Jean-Jacques Lécot as Pasquier
	Michel François as Doctor Molinier
	Robert Bazil as
	Jess Hahn as Karl
	Mohamed Ziani as Ali
	Augusto Mingione as Pietro
	Marcel Bozzuffi as
	Georges Hubert as
	Louis Velle as The new chief engineer
	Jacques Moulières as Luigi
	Giacomo Furia as The canteen manager
	Lina Furia as The canteen manager
	Gino Marturano as
	Gabriel Gobin as A card player
	Charles Denner as An assistant engineer
	Pierre Massiot as
	Émile Genevois as Worker
	Gérard Oury as Gérard Bailly
	Paola Borboni as (uncredited)
	Raymond Brun as (uncredited)
	Olivier Darrieux as A Man at the Wedding (uncredited)
	Georges Galley as (uncredited)
	Gérard Hernandez as The worker who replaces the storekeeper
	Jacques Morlaine as (uncredited)
	Madame Pâquerette as The owner of the center bistro (uncredited)

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