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El Cid

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El Cid
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NR,3hrs 4min
Genres:
Drama,War
Release:
1961
Director:
Anthony Mann
Distributor:
Walt Disney Video
Starring:
Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone  ...more
Synopsis: When French playwright Pierre Corneille wrote El Cid, a fanciful version of the life of 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, aka "El Cid", an attempt was made to honor the "classic unities" and to compress the whole story into a single day! Be assured that the 1961 film version of El Cid is more faithful to the actual chronology. Charlton Heston adds one more character to his gallery of historical portrayals as El Cid, the disgraced Spanish knight who rids his country of its Moorish ... Full Synopsis
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Mike Cummings, AMG Review
Charlton Heston's knack for wearing the mantle of larger-than-life characters serves him well in this 1961 Anthony Mann film of a noble Spanish warrior's campaign to unite his divided country against the threat of a Moorish invasion. Amid the pageantry of 11th century feudal Spain, Heston portrays the legendary Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, known to history as El Cid Campeador, "the Lord Champion." Based ... Full Review
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Charlton Heston
Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar/El Cid
Sophia Loren
Chimene
Raf Vallone
Count Ordonez
Ralph Truman
King Ferdinand
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