The Proud and the Beautiful

The Proud and the Beautiful (French: Les Orgueilleux, sub-title : Alvarado ) is a 1953 Franco-Mexican co-production drama directed by Yves Allégret. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story; the nomination officially went to Jean-Paul Sartre.

Cast

(which lets foresee the plot without unveiling it ...)

• 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.).
• Roberto 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, French tourist stopping to die of meningitis in Alvarado.
• Arturo Soto Rangel as the local priest.
• The inhabitants of Alvarado.
• Alvarado itself ( a little town on the Mexico Gulf Coast, state of Vera-Cruz, consterned by the meningitis plague on a canicular Holy Friday day. Its appalling heat, gusts of grating bells, bursts of crackers and beseting huapango music put everybody's nerves on edge).
• Luis Buñuel, as one of the repugnant 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.

External links

• The Proud and the Beautiful at IMDb
• Les Orgueilleux at Dvdrama
• Les Orgueilleux at Films de France
• The Proud and the Beautiful at AllMovie