The Prize (1950 film)
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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| Directed by | Jean Boyer |
| Written by | Marcel Pagnol |
| Based on | Le Rosier de Madame Husson by Guy de Maupassant |
| Produced by | Georges Agiman Jean Darvey |
| Starring | Bourvil Jacqueline Pagnol Mireille Perrey |
| Cinematography | Charles Suin |
| Edited by | Fanchette Mazin |
| Music by | Paul Misraki |
Production companies | Eminente Films Les Films Agiman |
| Distributed by | Gaumont |
Release date | 29 September 1950 |
Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Box office | 4 304 624 admissions (France)[1] |
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
- "Bourvil Box Office". Box Office Story.
- Oscherwitz & Higgins p.332
- "The Prize". Box Office Story.
- Goble p.935
- "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.