The Proud and the Beautiful (French: Les Orgueilleux, sub-title: Alvarado, aka The Proud Ones) is a 1953 drama film directed by Yves Allégret. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story (the nomination officially went to Jean-Paul Sartre), but lost to Dalton Trumbo (under the pseudonym Robert Rich) for The Brave One.
| The Proud and the Beautiful Les Orgueilleux | |
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| Directed by | Yves Allégret Rafael E. Portas |
| Written by | Jean-Paul Sartre (story: Typhus) Yves Allégret (adaptation) Jean Aurenche (scenario and dialogue) Jean Clouzot (dialogue) |
| Produced by | Raymond Borderie Salvador Elizondo |
| Starring | Michèle Morgan Gérard Philipe Carlos López Moctezuma Roberto Manuel Mendoza |
| Cinematography | Alex Phillips |
| Edited by | Claude Nicole |
| Music by | Paul Misraki |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures (France) |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
| Countries | France Mexico |
| Language | French |
| Box office | 2,805,061 admissions (France)[1] |
Cast
edit- 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.
- Víctor 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, a French tourist stopping to die of meningitis in Alvarado
- Arturo Soto Rangel as the local priest.
- Luis Buñuel as one of 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.
References
edit- ^ "Box Office Success of Gerard Philippe films". Box Office Story.
External links
edit- The Proud and the Beautiful at IMDb
- The Proud and the Beautiful at Rotten Tomatoes
- Les Orgueilleux at Dvdrama
- Les Orgueilleux at Films de France
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