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The Proud and the Beautiful (1953) [N/A]

Release Date:
November 25, 1953

Original Title:
Les Orgueilleux

Alternate Titles:
Die Hochmütigen
Les Orgueilleux
The Proud Ones

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique
Reforma Films

Production Countries:
France | Mexico

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 103

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

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Adaptation:
Yves Allégret

Art Direction:
Gunther Gerszo

Co-Director:
Rafael E. Portas

Dialogue:
Pierre Bost

Director:
Yves Allégret

Director of Photography:
Alex Phillips

Editor:
Claude Nicole

Original Music Composer:
Paul Misraki

Original Story:
Jean-Paul Sartre

Producer:
Salvador Elizondo

Screenplay:
Yves Allégret

Writer:
Jean Aurenche

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