The Proud and the Beautiful (1953) ( Les orgueilleux ) ( The Proud & the Beautiful )

The Proud and the Beautiful (1953) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Les orgueilleux
Alternate Title: The Proud & the Beautiful
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1953 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Mexico ( Latin America, Mexico )

Directed By:
Yves Allégret
Rafael E. Portas

Written By:
Jean-Paul Sartre
Yves Allégret

Actors:
Michèle Morgan ..... Nellie
Gérard Philipe ..... Georges
Carlos López Moctezuma ..... Doctor
Michèle Cordoue ..... Anna
André Toffel ..... Tom
Arturo Soto Rangel ..... Don Rodrigo
Josefina Escobedo
Jaime Fernández
Chel López
Víctor Manuel Mendoza
Lucrecia Muñoz
Beatriz Ramos
Guillermo Segura
Salvador Terroba

Synopsis:

The first to die in an epidemic of meningitis in Vera Cruz is a French tourist. His wife Nellie, detached and indifferent, feels little grief and realizes that her coldness is her own doom. Over the next two days, she is attracted to George, a local drunk who does odd jobs for brothels and dances grotesquely for tourists in exchange for drinks. George has his own dark secret, a tragedy he caused that leaves him with a death wish. In assisting the local doctor to cope with the epidemic, these two emotional cripples enable each other to rediscover reasons to live and to love.

A young woman, Nelly, arrives in a remote Mexican town with her sick husband. Diagnosed with having meningitis, her husband dies a short while later. She is drawn to a scruffy drunk named Georges who, she discovers, is an French expatriate who never recovered from the tragic death of his wife.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 14 October, 2021.