The Bellman

1945

French

6.4

♡ 2

Christian-Jaque Director

Renée Faure as Catherine Fabret

Georges Tourreil as Le brigadier de gendarmerie

Jacques Butin as Le gendarme

Michel Piccoli as Un villageois qui danse à la fête

The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order to bribe the daughter of his only friend, a head injury victim considered the village simpleton, into marrying him, despite her love for a lowly woodsman who is, in turn, being cajoled into marriage by the daughter of the wealthy innkeeper.