Complete credited cast: | |||
Anthony Steel | ... | Kit Kelly | |
Ludmilla Tchérina | ... | Anna | |
Antonio | ... | Antonio / Carmelo | |
Léonide Massine | ... | The Spectre in 'El Amor Brujo' (as Leonide Massine) | |
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Rosita Segovia | ... | Rosita / Candelas |
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Carmen Rojas | ... | Amalia / Lucía |
José Nieto | ... | Juan Carmona (as Pepe Nieto) | |
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Pastora Ruiz | ... | A Sorceress (ballet: El Amor Brujo) |
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Juan Carmona | ... | Pepe Nieto |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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María Clara Alcalá | ... | Candelas [voice] (singing voice) |
Australian famer Kit Kelly and his new bride Anna are driving through Europe when they help a stranded motorist. They discover he is Antonio, a famous dancer. Upon learning that Anna was a ballerina before she married, Antonio attempts to persuade her to join his company. Written by Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
If you applaud Michael Powell's tendency towards kitsch, you'll love this over- the-top, Technicolor travelogue, in which grinning Anthony Steel consistently chooses Pepsi over wine, Antonio dementedly dances down real dust-caked country roads, and in very unreal gypsy caves, and nobody really believes in the plot, except as an excuse for another ravishingly photographed Spanish location, or a garishly produced mini-ballet. Antonio's acting is of the flouncing artiste school - but it's in perfect keeping with this whole joyful, zesty farrago of colour and movement, which should be seen in its original Technirama format.