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Country
  
France Mexico

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Genre
  
Drama, Romance

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Language
  
French and sub-titled Spanish

Director
  
Yves Allegret Rafael E. Portas

Writer
  
Jean-Paul Sartre
,
Yves Allegret
,
Jean Aurenche
,
Jean Clouzot

Release date
  
November 25, 1953 (France)

Initial release
  
November 25, 1953 (France)

Directors
  
Yves Allegret, Rafael E. Portas

Music director
  
Paul Misraki, Gonzalo Curiel

Screenplay
  
Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, Jerome Geronimi

Cast
  
Gérard Philipe
(Georges),
Michèle Morgan
(Nellie),
Carlos López Moctezuma
(Doctor),
Michèle Cordoue
(Anna),
André Toffel
(Tom)

Similar movies
  
Gerard Philipe movies, Movies about Mexico, Dramas

An alcoholic French doctor (Gerard Philipe) meets a guilt-ridden French widow (Michele Morgan) in Mexico.

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

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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.

Cast

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

  • Michele Morgan as Nellie, a beautiful French tourist, whose husband suddenly dies, leaving her without resource in a foreign squalid village.
  • Gerard Philipe as Georges, a castaway drunkard, bubble of the local mob, formerly French M.D.
  • Carlos Lopez Moctezuma as el doctor ( the local worn-out M.D.).
  • Roberto Manuel Mendoza as Don Rodrigo (the local god-father, a typical bullying macho).
  • Michele Cordoue as Anna (Don Rodrigos harsh and vulgar French wife).
  • Andre 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 everybodys nerves on edge).
  • Luis Bunuel, as one of the repugnant Don Rodrigos 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-stars presence.

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    The Proud and the Beautiful Wikipedia
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