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. 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.

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