Tyrone Power

Linda Darnell

Rita Hayworth

Alla Nazimova

Anthony Quinn

J. Carrol Naish

Lynn Bari

John Carradine

Laird Cregar

Monty Banks

George Reeves

Pedro de Cordoba

Fortunio Bonanova

Victor Kilian

Adrian Morris

Ann E. Todd

Cora Sue Collins

Russell Hicks

Maurice Cass

Jacqueline Dalya

Rex Downing

Vicente Gómez

Charles Stevens

John Wallace

Cullen Johnson

Larry Harris

Ted Frye

Schuyler Standish

Rafael Alcayde

Harry Burns

Cecilia Callejo

Gino Corrado

Andre Cuyas

Ray Dixon

Raquel Echeverría

Thornton Edwards

Paul Ellis

Esther Estrella

Mariquita Flores

Bess Flowers

Rosita Granada

Ilia Khmara

Kay Linaker

Beverly Luff

Fred Malatesta

Francisco Marán

Francis McDonald

Francisco Moreno

Alberto Morin

Anne G. Sterling

Fanny Sterling

Ruth Sterling

Elena Verdugo

Michael Visaroff

Rouben Mamoulian

Jo Swerling

W.D. Flick

Roger Heman Sr.

Darryl F. Zanuck

Ray Rennahan

Robert Bischoff

Richard Day

Joseph C. Wright

Thomas Little

Travis Banton

Ernest Palmer

David Buttolph

Sid Bowen

Robert D. Webb

Henry Weinberger

Katherine Yorke

Armilitas

Geneva Sawyer

Budd Boetticher

Alfred Newman

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Hermes Pan

Drama

Romance

Blood and Sand

20th Century Fox

United States of America

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I started out quite enjoying this outing for Tyrone Power but by an hour in, I was really rather disappointed. Keen to follow in his grandfather's footsteps, he is the aspiring toreador "Gallardo" who is panned by critic "Curro" (the scene stealing Laird Creggar) as a fifth rate ring entertainer. He is determined to not only make his fortune, but to become famous and return to his village where he can claim the hand of childhood sweetheart "Carmen" (Linda Darnell). Thing is, success can be a double edged sword and at the top of his game and fame he is espied by the glamorous and rather manipulative "Doña Sol" (Rita Hayworth) who is determined to... well you can guess the rest. That's maybe the problem for me. It begins as a drama that looks at the sometimes rather brutal life of a bullfighter (rightly or wrongly) in a way that reminded me of many films about boxing. This sport really was the only way many people - not just those in the ring, but their friends and families too - could escape the cycle of poverty. It also illustrated quite well just how toxic the power of unfettered adulation can be when the object isn't maybe the strongest emotionally. The second hour does fall away, though, and we flirt just too closely with melodrama as Alfred Newman's score becomes just a bit too prominent (and indicative of what's to come). Anthony Quinn chips in quite well as the bitter "Manolo" but not really enough to keep the action elements on top. You can easily see the drawing power of both Power and Hayworth here, but the story itself let me down.

English

Blood And Sand 1941 Trailer