The Proud and the Beautiful
1953 film by Yves Allégret
- 25 November 1953 (1953-11-25) (France)
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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.
Cast
- 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
- ^ "Box Office Success of Gerard Philippe films". Box Office Story.
External links
- 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
- The Proud and the Beautiful at AllMovie
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Films directed by Yves Allégret
- Tobias Is an Angel (1940)
- Two Timid Souls (1943)
- Box of Dreams (1945)
- Dawn Devils (1946)
- Dédée d'Anvers (1948)
- Une si jolie petite plage (1949)
- Manèges (1950)
- Miracles Only Happen Once (1951)
- Desperate Decision (1952)
- Leathernose (1952)
- The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
- The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)
- Oh No, Mam'zelle (1954)
- Oasis (1955)
- The Best Part (1956)
- Young Girls Beware (1957)
- Send a Woman When the Devil Fails (1957)
- The Daughter of Hamburg (1958)
- The Restless and the Damned (1959)
- Jack of Spades (1960)
- Konga Yo (1962)
- Germinal (1963)
- Johnny Banco (1967)
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