`The Proud Ones' takes stylish look at a seedy world

The Boston Globe | June 26, 1992| | Copyright

One brief sequence in Yves Allegret's "The Proud Ones" (1953) tells you exactly why Martin Scorsese -- American film's poet of Catholic angst -- felt obliged to restore and present it (at Cambridge's Brattle Theatre for a week starting today). It comes when Michelle Morgan, as a Frenchwoman marooned in a plague-infested Mexican backwater near Vera Cruz, looks at a religious procession through the barred windows of her hotel. Right after we see her face behind bars, the camera cuts to a huge papier-mache religious figure that a moment later is blown to bits by fireworks inside. Even if the ...

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