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The Proud and the Beautiful

The Proud and the Beautiful

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The Proud and the Beautiful

"Strips Bare of Prim Morality a Side of Love That Women Won't Admit - Even to Themselves!"

1953

1h 43m

6.7(28 votes)

Drama

Overview

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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10 featured cast members

Starring

Michèle Morgan

Michèle Morgan

Nellie

Gérard Philipe

Gérard Philipe

Georges

Víctor Manuel Mendoza

Víctor Manuel Mendoza

Don Rodrigo

Carlos López Moctezuma

Carlos López Moctezuma

Doctor

Michèle Cordoue

Michèle Cordoue

Anna

André Toffel

Tom

Arturo Soto Rangel

Arturo Soto Rangel

Priest

Josefina Escobedo

Josefina Escobedo

Bonita, Rosa's sister (uncredited)

Jaime Fernández

Jaime Fernández

Bus driver (uncredited)

Chel López

Pickpocket (uncredited)

Creative team

Directed by: Yves Allégret
Written by: Yves Allégret
Produced by: Salvador Elizondo

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