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Release date: 11/25/1953
Popularity: 5
Original language: FR
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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!
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Drama
Overview
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.
Alternative titles
Les Orgueilleux
The Proud Ones
Die Hochmütigen