The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)

ALL 11/25/1953 (fr) Drama 103 Min
  • Release
    11/25/1953
  • Production
    Reforma Films, Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique
  • Rotten tomato
    66%
  • Original title
    Les Orgueilleux
  • Original language
    fr
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Strips Bare of Prim Morality a Side of Love That Women Won't Admit - Even to Themselves!

Overview

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.

  1. Yves Allégret

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Claude Nicole

    Editor



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The Proud and the Beautiful (1953) 103 Min

ALL 11/25/1953 (fr)
Drama
  • Release 11/25/1953
  • Production
    Reforma Films, Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique
  • Original title Les Orgueilleux
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

Strips Bare of Prim Morality a Side of Love That Women Won't Admit - Even to Themselves!

Overview

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.

  1. Yves Allégret

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Claude Nicole

    Editor

  4. Salvador Elizondo

    Producer