The Prize (1950 film)

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The Prize
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Directed by Jean Boyer
Written by Marcel Pagnol
Based on Le Rosier de Madame Husson by Guy de Maupassant
Produced byGeorges 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 Distribution
Release date
  • 29 September 1950 (1950-09-29)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office4 304 624 admissions (France) [1]

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.

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References

  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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