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Overview

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6.3/10   167 votes
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Director:
Roy Ward Baker
Writers:
Nigel Balchin (writer)
Audrey Erskine-Lindop (novel)
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Release Date:
2 May 1962 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Western more
Tagline:
A New and Powerfully Different Kind of Motion Picture Story...
User Comments:
Hilarious! more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Dirk Bogarde ... Anacleto

John Mills ... Father Keogh
Mylène Demongeot ... Locha
Laurence Naismith ... Old Uncle
John Bentley ... Police Captain
Leslie French ... Father Gomez

Eric Pohlmann ... Presidente
Nyall Florenz ... Vito
Roger Delgado ... Locha's Father
Philip Gilbert ... Phil Brown
Selma Vaz Dias ... Chela
Laurence Payne ... Pablo
Jacqueline Evans ... Dona Marian
Lee Montague ... Pepe
Serafina Di Leo ... Jasefa
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Additional Details

Runtime:
132 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Spain

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Trivia:
John Mills has stated in interviews that Dirk Bogarde was one of the very few actors he disliked working with. more

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2 out of 10 people found the following comment useful:-
Hilarious!, 22 January 2000
1/10
Author: cat-12 from Ireland

An unintentional riot of fun! Never has the wonderful Dirk Bogarde been so poorly miscast. The sight of his character reduced me to tears as he failed to strike fear dressed as a Jim Morrison wannabe in leather trousers and black silk shirt. John Mills appeared to be having a hard time holding onto his ersatz Irish accent and his attempts at steely determination were a joy to behold. One must assume that money was the prime motivation behind theses to old pros participation - Bogarde did go on to give us some of his finest performances in films like The Servant and Death in Venice. This shocking waste of time would have been better left on the cutting room floor. Unless you are really stuck for something to watch or have a finely tuned sense of the bizarre give this a miss

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