Casque d'Or (1952)

Highly Recommended

France

Feature Film

Original Title: Casque d'or

Director: Jacques Becker

Writers: Jacques Becker, Jacques Companéez

Cinematographer: Robert Lefebvre

Composer: Georges Van Parys

Cast: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Bussières, William Sabatier, Claude Castaing

After killing a man in a knife fight, a simple carpenter attempts to start a new life with a prostitute that he has fallen for, but when an old friend is implicated in the killing he feels obliged to turn himself in, leaving his beloved Marie in the hands of the duplicitous gangster who orchestrated the whole sordid affair, in Becker’s beautifully photographed, expertly acted, and thoroughly compelling fatalistic gem. Iain.Stott