The Proud and the Beautiful (movie)
Les Orgueilleux- User score: 6.6
- Production country: France, Mexico
- Producer: Yves Allégret
- Production companies: Reforma Films, Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 11/25/1953
- Run time: 103 min.
Movie description
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.
