Härkätaistelija ja senorita

Original title: Bullfighter and the Lady

19511951
K-12K-12
1h 27m

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6.8/10

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Joy Page and Robert Stack in Härkätaistelija ja senorita (1951)

Drama Romance Sport

Hoping to impress a beautiful senorita, an American visiting Mexico trains with a famous Mexican bullfighter and becomes a competing bullfighter himself.Hoping to impress a beautiful senorita, an American visiting Mexico trains with a famous Mexican bullfighter and becomes a competing bullfighter himself.Hoping to impress a beautiful senorita, an American visiting Mexico trains with a famous Mexican bullfighter and becomes a competing bullfighter himself.

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

609

YOUR RATING

Director
- Budd Boetticher
Writers
- James Edward Grant(screenplay)
- Budd Boetticher(story)
- Ray Nazarro(story)
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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total

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Ricardo Torres 'Bombita' in Härkätaistelija ja senorita (1951)

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Trivia
The scenes of Robert Stack showing Gilbert Roland how to skeet shoot parallel true life. In college Stack was not interested in team sports, so he took up skeet shooting. In 1935 he came in second in the National Skeet Shooting Championship held in Cleveland, and in 1936 his five-man team broke the standing record at the National Skeet Championships held in St. Louis. In 1937, he was the U.S. 20-gauge champion skeet marksman and held the record for more than 350 consecutive hits. He also served as a gunnery officer in the U.S. Navy for more than three years during World War II and, among other decorations, was awarded the "Expert Rifle" and "Expert Pistol" ribbons.

Alternate versions
Cut to 87 minutes after premiere; recently restored to original 124-minutes length.

Connections
Featured in The 67th Annual Academy Awards (1995)

Soundtracks
Esta Noche (Tonight)
Music by Victor Young
Lyrics by Jack Elliott
Spanish lyrics by Aaron González

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10/10

A neglected masterpiece

This is a beautiful, compelling and honest film. It is imbued with the good kind of machismo--notions of honor, sacrifice, and the nobility of effort. Instead of cluttering up the film with lots of story and complications, Boetticher has delved inside the heart and mind of this (to us gringos) strange sport.

My only addition to the other comments is the photography is remarkable for its era, almost an outdoor film noir, a romantic realism in black and white. (And note that in a number of shots it is clearly Robert Stack doing his own bullfighting!) I note that the film was produced by John Wayne for Republic, obviously mostly in Mexico; just one year later Republic permitted John Ford to make THE QUIET MAN in Ireland; early examples of American filmmaking in an international context.

Don't hesitate to see this extraordinary film.

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