| The Prize | |
| Director: | Jean Boyer |
| Producer: | Georges Agiman Jean Darvey |
| Based On: | Le Rosier de Madame Husson by Guy de Maupassant |
| Starring: | Bourvil Jacqueline Pagnol Mireille Perrey |
| Music: | Paul Misraki |
| Cinematography: | Charles Suin |
| Editing: | Fanchette Mazin |
| Studio: | Eminente Films Les Films Agiman |
| Distributor: | Gaumont |
| Runtime: | 84 minutes |
| Language: | French |
| Country: | France |
| Gross: | 4 304 624 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]
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.