Blood and Sand
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Movie Reviews of Blood and Sand
Movie Review: Rise and fall, from the humbleness to the apex!
Summary: 4 Stars
"Blood and sand" is one of the most famous novels of Blasco Ibañez, that somehow retakes the myth of Icarus about the story of the son of a famous bullfighter, from his impoverished ages of childhood to his unequalled fame as the best Spanish bull fighter, idolized and loved for many women.
His superb reaches a turning point when he was seduced by an alluring woman - Rita Hayworth-, although she is aware he `s a married man, and how this ethic deviation will lead him to a fatal disgrace, here you have the essential pivot of all tragedy according the Greek pattern, the violation or transgression of the rule will blind the humblest of men.
Tyrone Power as the disgraced bullfighter, Linda Darnell as his suffered wife and Hayworth as the "fatale femme" complete a narration that will be completed with the basic elements of the Spanish culture, the bullring, the devotion for the Macarena Virgin, the flamenco and other minors issues that constituted a well rounded film without that used ornamentation or bombastic feature that nourished other similar films of the Forties.
Maybe the film is a bit overlong and that's why I can't give it five stars.
Movie Review: Anthony Quinn and Rita Hayworth dance
Summary: 4 Stars
Boyhood rivals Tyrone Power and Anthony Quinn grow up to be rival matadors.So far, so what. But then they become rivals in love. Now you have a story. Power is the first to get involved with the lucious Rita Hayworth but then Quinn moves in for the prize. It is rare that one scene can make an entire movie worth the purchase price but the scene in which Quinn and Hayworth dance is that scene. Quinn uses the moves of a matador with Hayworth dancing the part of the matador's twirling cape in her rose colored gown. When the cafe patrons shout ole` the viewer is one with them.
Hayworth and Quinn had an affair while participating in the movie. Watching them dance it could not have been otherwise. GET THE MOVIE.
Movie Review: Finally!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
Finally Columbia is getting off their butts and releasing more of this wonderful actresses movies. She is the Love Goddess for heaven's sake. Come on Columbia Execs--she was such a huge draw and still is. This movie was one of the first I ever bought of hers. It is not her best, but it is exciting and lots of fun to watch. I do hope this means we will finally get to see greats like Salome, Affair In Trinidad. Also, if any MGM Execs read this--we need The Strawberry Blonde--it is imperative, Rita and Cagney at their best!! So come on, everyone who is a Rita Fan, please post--we need more of her movies on DVD!!Movie Review: Blood and Sand - The Movie
Summary: 3 Stars
A love triangle in which an aspiring bullfighter falls under the spell of a beautiful woman.Movie Review: My one word review, ponderous.
Summary: 2 Stars
The only Tyrone power movie I have not liked! Beautifully filmed with a great cast, it is so slow moving as to be unwatchable, I started fast forwarding halfway through at the request of the other viewers. The look at the bullfighting culture was interesting and the role of Curro the newspaper "sports" writer played by Laird Cregar was superb,the camera loves Power and of course Rita Hayworth, who remains a hot dish 70 years later. All the elements for a great classic film but I just couldn't believe this was directed by the same man who had done "The Mark of Zorro" only two years earlier. My one word review would be "ponderous"!