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Budd Boetticher (story)
Charles Lang (writer)
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Release Date:
30 April 1956 (Denmark) more
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Maureen O'Hara as the spoiled, rich, American preditor who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Maureen O'Hara ... Karen Harrison

Anthony Quinn ... Luís Santos
Manuel Rojas ... Rafael Reyes
Richard Denning ... Mark Russell
Thomas Gomez ... Don David
Lola Albright ... Mona Wilton
William Ching ... Jody Wilton (as William Brooks Ching)
Eduardo Noriega ... Miguel
Lorraine Chanel ... Sarita Sebastian
Anthony Caruso ... Emiliano
Jesus 'Chucho' Solorzano ... Himself
Joaquín Rodríguez 'Cagancho' ... Himself
Rafael Rodríguez ... Himself
Antonio Velasquez ... Himself
Jorge 'Ranchero' Aguilar ... Himself
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Also Known As:
The Brave and the Beautiful (UK)
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Runtime:
94 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
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2.55 : 1 more
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4-Track Stereo (magnetic prints) | Mono (optical prints)
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1 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Ole !, 14 December 2008
2/10
Author: dsewizzrd-1 from Australia

Expensively filmed and orchestrated in colour Cinemascope, Maureen O'Hara and Anthony Quinn star in this slow romance set in the bullfighting milieu in Mexico.

Quinn is a matador in his last year that throws over a showing apparently because he chickens out and shacks up with the wealthy O'Hara.

Tedious portentousness passes for gravity in this slow drama, with some rough cutting especially the scene where the background shifts about six times, alternating between treeless plain, treeless mountain, and tree-filled mountain all in the same shot.

The greasy 'hombres' in tuxedos are a bit interesting, but the politics is rubbish and bullfighting is 'orrible anyway.

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