The Prize (1950 film)

The Prize
The Prize
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)

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]

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.

External links

The Prize at IMDb

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[1] "Bourvil Box Office". Box Office Story.

[2] Oscherwitz & Higgins p.332

[3] "The Prize". Box Office Story.

[4] Goble p.935

[5] "1950 Box Office". Box Office Story.

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