The_Prize_(1950_film)

<i>The Prize</i> (1950 film)

The Prize (1950 film)

1950 film by Jean Boyer

The Prize (French: Le rosier de Madame Husson) is a 1950 French comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Bourvil, Jacqueline Pagnol and Mireille Perrey.[2] It is based on the 1887 novel Le Rosier de Madame Husson.[3] [4] It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris and on location in Normandy including around Eure. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani. It was a sizeable box office hit, being the seventh most popular film of the year in France.[5]

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Synopsis

A circle of a small town's older ladies decide to award a prize for virtue for a young woman with an unblemished reputation. When it turns out nobody in the settlement qualifies, they instead award it to Isidore an idiotic and bashful young man with a fear of the opposite sex. However when Isidore encounters and spends the night with a countess, who sits on the board giving out the prize, he is suddenly transformed into a worldly figure who returns to the town in triumph.

Cast

  • Bourvil as Isidore Pastouret
  • Jacqueline Pagnol as Élodie - la bergère / Young Girl
  • Mireille Perrey as La comtesse de Blonville / Countess de Blonville
  • Pauline Carton as Virginie Pastouret - l'épicière
  • Henri Vilbert as Le brigadier / Brigadier of the Gendarmerie
  • Jeanne Véniat as Madame Pitard
  • Albert Duvaleix as Le curé / Priest
  • Germaine Reuver as Nicoline - la fermière
  • Jean Dunot as Polyte - le fermier
  • Nina Myral as Madame de Gondreville
  • Christian Lude as Le docteur Barbesol
  • Yvette Etiévant as Marie
  • Georges Baconnet as Fulgence Laboureur - le maire
  • Suzanne Dehelly as Mdaemoiselle Irène Cadenat
  • Germaine Dermoz as Madame Husson
  • Fernand Blot as Un conseiller communal
  • André Dalibert as Célestin - un conseiller communal
  • Marcelle Féry as Une cliente de l'épicerie Pastouret
  • Marcel Loche as Un conseiller communal
  • Étienne Lorin as Le chef d'orchestre

References

  1. [1]
    "Bourvil Box Office". Box Office Story.
  2. [2]
    Oscherwitz & Higgins p.332
  3. [3]
    "The Prize". Box Office Story.
  4. [4]
    Goble p.935
  5. [5]
    "1950 Box Office". Box Office Story.

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, MaryEllen. The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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