The Proud and the Beautiful
| The Proud and the Beautiful Les Orgueilleux | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by |
Yves Allégret Rafael E. Portas |
| Produced by |
Raymond Borderie Salvador Elizondo |
| Written by |
Jean-Paul Sartre (story: Typhus) Yves Allégret (adaptation) Jean Aurenche (scenario and dialogue) Jean Clouzot (dialogue) |
| Starring |
Michèle Morgan Gérard Philipe Carlos López Moctezuma Roberto Manuel Mendoza |
| Music by | Mexican music selected by Paul Misraki |
| Cinematography | Alex Phillips |
| Edited by | Claude Nicole |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures (France) |
Release dates | November 25, 1953 (France) |
Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country |
France Mexico |
| Language | French and sub-titled Spanish |
The Proud and the Beautiful (French: Les Orgueilleux, sub-title : Alvarado ) is a 1953 Franco-Mexican co-production drama directed by Yves Allégret. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story; the nomination officially went to Jean-Paul Sartre.
Cast
(which lets foresee the plot without unveiling it ...)
- Michèle Morgan as Nellie, a beautiful French tourist, whose husband suddenly dies, leaving her without resource in a foreign squalid village.
- Gérard Philipe as Georges, a castaway drunkard, bubble of the local mob, formerly French M.D.
- Carlos López Moctezuma as el doctor ( the local worn-out M.D.).
- Roberto Manuel Mendoza as Don Rodrigo (the local god-father, a typical bullying macho).
- Michèle Cordoue as Anna (Don Rodrigo's harsh and vulgar French wife).
- André Toffel as Tom, French tourist stopping to die of meningitis in Alvarado.
- Arturo Soto Rangel as the local priest.
- The inhabitants of Alvarado.
- Alvarado itself ( a little town on the Mexico Gulf Coast, state of Vera-Cruz, consterned by the meningitis plague on a canicular Holy Friday day. Its appalling heat, gusts of grating bells, bursts of crackers and beseting huapango music put everybody's nerves on edge).
- Luis Buñuel, as one of the repugnant Don Rodrigo's gun-bearers. The realistic-satirical description of the plague, along with numerous local spicy private jokes in the abundant Spanish part of the dialogue certainly owes a lot to the guest-star's presence.
External links
- The Proud and the Beautiful at the Internet Movie Database
- Les Orgueilleux at Dvdrama
- Les Orgueilleux at Films de France
- The Proud and the Beautiful at AllMovie
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