Les Orgueilleux (1953) - Trailer

LES ORGUEILLEUX (1953, France, Mexico, 100 min) Directors: Yves Allégret Cast: Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Carlos López Moctezuma, Michèle Cordoue, André Toffel, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, Jaime Fernández _________________________________________________________________ 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.