Blood and Sand

May 30, 1941

2h 5m

★ 6.5

Love flamed in the shadow of death!

Overview

Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

Juan

Tyrone Power

Carmen Espinosa

Linda Darnell

Dona Sol

Rita Hayworth

Senora Augustias

Alla Nazimova

Manolo de Palma

Anthony Quinn

Garabato

J. Carrol Naish

Encarnacion

Lynn Bari

Nacional

John Carradine

Natalio Curro

Laird Cregar

Antonio Lopez

Monty Banks

Capt. Pierre Lauren

George Reeves

Don Jose Alvarez

Pedro de Cordoba

In their spare time, after their studies or their work, children and adolescents between the ages of eight and sixteen meet at the School of Bullfighting in Madrid to learn the Art of Cúchares: Torear. In their stomachs there is no hunger as in the past, their dreams do not lie in having a farmhouse and being famous. Their only dreams are to be in front of a bull, animal with which death goes, fact of which they are fully aware, as their teachers continually remind them. These, retired bullfighters, some by age, others by force and all with their bodies full of scars produced by the horns of a bull. The nude bullfighting scene is fascinating without being exploitive, and it serves as an analogy for the vulnerability these young bullfighters have when in the ring with the bulls.

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