The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)
Les orgueilleux (original title)Reference View | Change View
- 1h 43min
- Drama, Romance
- 25 Nov 1953 (France)
- Movie
Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.
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Awards:
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
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| Michèle Morgan | ... |
Nellie, Tom's Wife
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| Gérard Philipe | ... |
Georges, Former French Doctor
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| Víctor Manuel Mendoza | ... |
Don Rodrigo, Hotel Owner
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| Carlos López Moctezuma | ... |
Doctor
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Michèle Cordoue | ... |
Anna, Rodrigo's Lover
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André Toffel | ... |
Tom - French Tourist
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| Arturo Soto Rangel | ... |
Priest
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Josefina Escobedo | ... |
Bonita, Rosa's Sister
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| Jaime Fernández | ... |
Bus Driver
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Chel López | ... |
Pickpocket
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Lucrecia Muñoz | ... |
Rosa, George's Lover
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Beatriz Ramos | ... |
Brothel Madam
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Guillermo Segura |
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Salvador Terroba | ... |
Post Office Client
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| Luis Buñuel | ... |
Smuggler (uncredited)
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Directed by
| Yves Allégret | ||
| Rafael E. Portas | ... | (co-director) |
Written by
| Jean Aurenche | ... | (scenario) |
| Jean Aurenche | ... | (dialogue) and |
| Jérôme Géronimi | ... | (dialogue) (as Jean Clouzot) |
| Yves Allégret | ... | (adaptation) |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | ... | (story "Typhus") |
| Pierre Bost | ... | (dialogue) (uncredited) |
Produced by
| Raymond Borderie | ... | executive producer: France |
| Salvador Elizondo | ... | producer |
| Raoul Lévy | ... | assistant executive producer: France |
| Mauricio de la Serna | ... | assistant executive producer: Mexico |
Music by
| Paul Misraki | ||
| Gonzalo Curiel | ... | (uncredited) |
Cinematography by
| Alex Phillips | ... | director of photography |
Editing by
| Claude Nicole | ||
| Jorge Bustos | ... | (uncredited) |
Editorial Department
| Ginette Boudet | ... | assistant editor |
Art Direction by
| Jean André | ||
| Roberto Silva | ||
Set Decoration by
| Gunther Gerszo | ||
Makeup Department
| Michèle Dumont | ... | hair stylist |
| Yvonne Fortuna | ... | makeup artist: France (as Fortuna) |
| Sara Mateos | ... | makeup artist: Mexico |
Production Management
| Charles Borderie | ... | unit manager: France |
| Jorge Elizondo | ... | unit manager: Mexico |
| Espinosa | ... | unit production manager |
| André Rameau | ... | unit production manager (as A. Rameau) |
| Felipe Subervielle | ... | production manager: Mexico |
| Louis Wipf | ... | production manager: France |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| Jaime Contreras | ... | assistant director: Mexico (as J. Contreras) |
| Michel Romanoff | ... | assistant director: France (as M. Romanoff) |
| Serge Witta | ... | second assistant director (uncredited) |
Art Department
| Jean André | ... | assistant art director: France |
| Auguste Capelier | ... | construction coordinator |
| Raymond Lemoigne | ... | assistant property master |
| Roberto Silva | ... | assistant art director: Mexico |
Sound Department
| Armando Bolaños | ... | sound assistant: France (as A. Bolanos) |
| Contreras | ... | sound assistant: Mexico |
| Luis Fernández | ... | sound: Mexico |
| William Robert Sivel | ... | sound: France (as William R. Sivel) |
| Arthur Van der Meeren | ... | sound assistant: France (as Van der Meeren) |
| Pierre Zann | ... | sound assistant: France (as Zann) |
| Gilles Barberis | ... | audio restorer (uncredited) |
Camera and Electrical Department
| A. Carillo | ... | assistant camera: Mexico |
| Jean Dicop | ... | assistant camera: France (as Dicop) |
| Robert Florent | ... | assistant camera: France (as Florent) |
| Louis Née | ... | camera operator: France |
| Francisco Urbina | ... | still photographer (as Urbina) |
| Hugo Velasco | ... | camera operator: Mexico (as H. Velasco) |
| Raymond Voinquel | ... | still photographer (as Voinquel) |
Additional Crew
| Suzanne Bon | ... | script supervisor: France |
| Javier Carreño | ... | script supervisor: Mexico |
| Jean-Henri Chambois | ... | french voice dubbing: Víctor Manuel Mendoza (uncredited) |
| Valéry Inkijinoff | ... | french voice dubbing: Carlos López Moctezuma (uncredited) |
| Philippe Lemaire | ... | french voice dubbing: André Toffel (uncredited) |
Production Companies
- Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique (CICC)
- Films Chrysaor
- Iéna Productions
- Reforma Films
Distributors
- Columbia Films (1953) (France) (theatrical)
- Columbia Films S. A. (1953) (Mexico) (theatrical)
- Compagnia Edizioni Internazionali Artistiche Distribuzione (CEIAD) (1954) (Italy) (theatrical) (as CEIAD)
- Curzon Film Distributors (1954) (United Kingdom) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- City Film (1954) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
- Columbia Films (1954) (Denmark) (theatrical)
- Kingsley-International Pictures (1956) (United States) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- Filmjuwelen (2020) (Germany) (DVD)
- Télé Monte Carlo (1985) (Monaco) (tv)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Western Electric (auditorium: France)
- RCA Victor (auditorium: Mexico)
Storyline
| Plot Summary |
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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| Taglines | A film of mood and character...never were lovers so charged with tension and torment...so fearful of their own passions See more » |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | Jean-Paul Sartre wrote ten drafts for screenplays to be used by Columbia Pictures, of which only three were typed down. The other seven were sort of rejected, and one of these, 'Typhus' came to be the obvious inspiration for Les orgueilleux/Los Orgullosos, Yves Allégret's co-production with Mexico. The film won the Bronze Lion in the 1953 Venice Film Festival, ex-aequo with I Was a Parish Priest (1953), Pickup on South Street (1953), and The Landowner's Daughter (1953), and also a Special Prize from the same Jury. When the film was nominated for Best Writing, Motion Picure Story, for the 1957 Academy Awards - in the wake of the film's release in the USA, with promotional materials emphasizing it was "Jean-Paul Sartre's The Proud and the Beautiful", the French philosopher disowned his authorship. The film has also been said to be based on Sartre's novel, "L'amour redempteur"... which he never wrote! This myth did not end, even after its exposure as such in "Feature Cinema in the 20th Century: Volume One: 1913-1950: a Comprehensive Guide", by By Jacek Klinowski et al. See more » |
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