The Proud and the Beautiful
Strips Bare of Prim Morality a Side of Love That Women Won't Admit - Even to Themselves!
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.
- Year: 1953
- Country: France, Mexico
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Reforma Films, Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique
- Keyword: husband wife relationship, heatwave
- Director: Yves Allégret
- Cast: Gérard Philipe, Michèle Morgan, Carlos López Moctezuma, Michèle Cordoue, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, André Toffel
