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. It is based on the 1887 novel Le Rosier de Madame Husson. 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.
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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