Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1953
The Proud and the Beautiful
Buy The Proud and the Beautiful now from AmazonFirst, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.
Wikipedia article
'The Proud and the Beautiful' (, sub-title: 'Alvarado', aka 'The Proud Ones') is a 1953 drama film directed by Yves Allgret. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story (the nomination officially went to Jean-Paul Sartre), but lost to Dalton Trumbo (under the pseudonym Robert Rich) for 'The Brave One'.
Cast
*Michle Morgan as Nellie, a beautiful French tourist, whose husband suddenly dies, leaving her without resource in a foreign squalid village.
*Grard Philipe as Georges, a castaway drunkard, bubble of the local mob, formerly French M.D.
*Carlos Lpez Moctezuma as "el doctor", the local worn-out M.D.
*Roberto Manuel Mendoza as Don Rodrigo, the local god-father, a typical bullying 'macho'.
*Michle Cordoue as Anna, Don Rodrigo's harsh and vulgar French wife.
*Andr Toffel as Tom, a French tourist stopping to die of meningitis in Alvarado
*Arturo Soto Rangel as the local priest.
*Luis Buuel as one of 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.
References
Buy The Proud and the Beautiful now from Amazon
<-- Return to movies from 1953