Sortilèges (1945)

Sortilèges is a French crime film first released in 1945, directed by Christian-Jaque.  The film is based on a novel by Claude Boncompain and stars Lucien Coëdel, Fernand Ledoux and Renée Faure.  It has also been released under the title: The Bellman.  Our overall rating for this film is: good.


A horse dealer is making his way across the Cévennes mountains in a snowstorm when he is suddenly attacked by a stranger.  His assailant is Jean-Baptiste, a reclusive man known locally as the Bellman.  Having killed the horse dealer, Jean-Baptiste flees with his gold.  He intends to share these ill-gotten gains with Fabret, a simpleminded old man whose daughter he has taken a fancy to.  In fact, Fabret’s daughter, Catherine, is in love with another man, a woodcutter named Peter.  When the horse merchant’s corpse is discovered, the villagers suspect that he was killed by Fabret and organise a lynch mob.  Pierre comes to the aid of the old man, only to learn that Jean-Baptiste has fled with Catherine...

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