The Proud and the Beautiful

The Proud and the Beautiful
Les Orgueilleux
The Proud and the Beautiful; Les Orgueilleux
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)
Release date	25 November 1953 (France);
Running time	103 minutes
Countries	France; Mexico
Language	French
Box office	2,805,061 admissions (France)

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.

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