The Proud ones

the Proud is a film free-Mexican of Yves Allégret left in 1953.

Synopsis

Nellie arrives with her sick husband in a Mexican small village in the area of Veracruz. Whereas she seeks a doctor, she crosses Georges, a deposed doctor, become alcoholic. The doctor will not have time to look after her husband, that Georges discovers dead, of the continuations of a meningitis cérébro-spinale. Nellie is disturbed by the lack of sadness which it feels. The case of meningitis was not isolated and an epidemic starts to devastate the area. Nellie settles with the hotel time to try to repatriate the body of her husband in France, but for medical reasons this one will be buried on the spot. It is confused. The owner of the hotel makes him an insistent court and has fun of Georges, always in search of glass or a bottle of Téquila. Georges was doctor before, but following the death of his wife during a childbirth which it itself assisted, it did not cease any more drinking. Nellie shows more and more attention in its connection. The village is put in Forty, and the male nurses are touched by the disease. At the request of the Doctor, and awaked by the love of Nellie, Georges agrees not to drink and build an infirmary of fortune in his district, in order to save lives. Nellie leaves to join it and they throw in the arms one of the other.

Data sheet

Title: the proud
Realization: Yves Allégret and Rafael E. Carried
Scénario: Yves Allégret, Pierre Bost, Jean Aurenche according to a news of Jean-Paul Sartre (Typhus)
Dialogs: Jean Aurenche, Jean Clouzot
Production: Raymond Borderie and El Salvador Elizondo
Images: Alex Philips
Assembly: Jorge Bustos and Claude Nicole
Music: Paul Misraki and Gonzalo Curiel
Country: France - Mexico
Language: French and Spanish (Mexico)
Lasted: 103 minutes
Format: Black and white - 4:3 - mono - 35 mm
Coming out date: November 25th, 1953 (Paris)

Distribution

Michele Morgan: Nellie
Gerard Philippe: Georges
Carlos Lopez Moctezuma: The doctor
Manual Victor Mendoza: Gift Rodrigo
Michele Cordoue: Anna
Arturo Soto Rangel: priest
Andre Toffel: Tom.
Jaime Fernández : truck driver
Josefina Escobedo
Chel López
Lucrecia Muñoz
Beatriz Ramos
Guillermo Segura
El Salvador Terroba
Shine Bunuel: trafficker
inhabitants of Alvarado (Vera Cruz).

Around film

It is said that Martin Scorsese is an admiror of this film and that the erotism of the scenes where Michele Morgan, in light behavior does without the ice floes on the face and the bust and refreshes the legs with a ventilator disturbed its adolescence. Sometimes shown coldness the actress is here very moving in the distress by its role by disabled young woman. Gerard Philippe, remarkable, gives to his character the ambiguous complexity which avoids to him sinking in the caricature. It is often said that the two actors did not get along well during turning, but with the screen complicity is total. Even if the phase of redemption less seems to interest Yves Allégret.

Publication of the account

My film n°391 of February 17th, 1954: illustrated account of 2 pages
Collection happy life n°19 of 1959: novel photographs of 32 pages

Reward

The poster of film indicates International prize Biennale de Venise 1953

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