No, not the top-notch Western of the same name (1956, Robert Ryan, Jeffrey Hunter, a no-name director, a haunting whistled theme song), but a cinematic artifact of some interest nonetheless, a lump of soft-boiled French Existentialism (title in its native tongue: Les Orgueilleux) about an impending meningitis epidemic in a filthy Mexican flyspeck -- not too distant from the opening of Wages of Fear. There is a palpable sense of heat and, less pervasively though more originally, sense of germiness. Not least among its points of cultural interest are the sights of Michelle Morgan in her underthings and Gerard Philipe dancing a drunken "wapengo." Directed by Yves Allegret. (1953) — Duncan Shepherd
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