i sit through this movie this evening and force myself to stick with it even though i never care about any of the character or what happen to them and because the two lead and gérard philippe and michèle morgan and be major film star of their era and i want to see them in something different and which this certainly be . they both give fine performance and but of distasteful character . indeed and the whole movie be about a shabby little town in mexico inhabit by almost uniformly distasteful character ( the doctor be and of course and the major exception ) . what michèle morgan ever see in philippe to fall in love with him be never explain . this be supposedly base on a work by jean paul sartre . all i could think be that and if sartre work be anything like this movie and it must be a very mediocre attempt at imitate camus masterful novel the plague and which deal with a plague in north africa . a well act but uninteresting movie .