The Proud and the Beautiful

The Proud and the Beautiful is a 1953 drama film directed by Yves Allégret. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story, but lost to Dalton Trumbo for The Brave One.

Cast

Michèle Morgan as Nellie, a beautiful French tourist, whose husband suddenly dies, leaving her without resource in a foreign squalid village.
Gérard Philipe as Georges, a castaway drunkard, bubble of the local mob, formerly French M.D.
Carlos López Moctezuma as "el doctor", the local worn-out M.D.
Víctor Manuel Mendoza as Don Rodrigo, the local god-father, a typical bullying macho.
Michèle Cordoue as Anna, Don Rodrigo's harsh and vulgar French wife.
André Toffel as Tom, a French tourist stopping to die of meningitis in Alvarado
Arturo Soto Rangel as the local priest.
Luis Buñuel as one of Don Rodrigo's gun-bearers. The realistic-satirical description of the plague, along with numerous local spicy private jokes in the abundant Spanish part of the dialogue certainly owes a lot to the guest-star's presence.