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The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a 1962 drama film based on a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. It was directed by Vincente Minnelli and starred Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Lukas, Yvette Mimieux, Karlheinz Böhm, and Paul Henreid.

Story[link]

For this adaptation of the book, the time was changed from World War I to World War II.

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Cast[link]

• Glenn Ford: Julio Desnoyers
• Ingrid Thulin: Marguerite Laurier
• Charles Boyer: Marcelo Desnoyers
• Yvette Mimieux: Chi-Chi
• Lee J. Cobb: Madariaga
• Paul Henreid: Etienne Laurier

Reception[link]

Released by MGM, the film lost six million dollars at the box office. It was compared very unfavorably to the famous 1921 version, which propelled Rudolph Valentino to superstardom. Ford, with many films behind him, was not the unknown that Valentino was when he appeared in the 1921 film. Ford, 46 years old, also had the disadvantage of trying to reprise a role that Valentino had played when he was 26. Critics also considered Ford severely miscast as a Latin lover, and one who, in their minds, should have been a lot younger^{[citation needed]}.

Minnelli wanted Alain Delon and Romy Schneider for the starring roles, but Schneider declined and the producers were adamant that the male lead be an American star. Ford was paired with an older actress, Ingrid Thulin, making both main roles much older than the book and 1921 film characters, giving more credibility to their relationship than a May–December romance would have. Although Thulin spoke English well, she was dubbed by Angela Lansbury.

Having gained some positive critical reappraisal in recent years, the film is now considered a masterpiece in France, Argentina and Spain.^{[citation needed]}

Soundtrack[link]

André Previn composed the soundtrack score, which Alan and Marilyn Bergman later adapted and wrote lyrics to. The resulting song, "More In Love With You," was recorded by Barbra Streisand for The Movie Album (2003).

External links[link]

• The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse at the Internet Movie Database

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Ingrid Thulin
Ingrid Thulin and director Ingmar Bergman during the production of The Silence (1963)
Born	(1926-01-27)27 January 1926 Sollefteå, Ångermanland, Sweden
Died	7 January 2004(2004-01-07) (aged 77) Stockholm, Sweden
Spouse	Claes Sylwander (1952–1955) Harry Schein (1956–1989)
Website
http://www.ingridthulin.se/

Ingrid Lilian Thulin (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɪŋːrɪd tɵˈliːn]; 27 January 1926 – 7 January 2004) was a Swedish film actress.

Biography[link]

Thulin was born in Sollefteå, Ångermanland, northern Sweden, the daughter of Nanna (née Larsson) and Adam Thulin, ^[1] a fisherman. She took ballet lessons as a girl and was accepted by The Royal Dramatic Theatre ("Dramaten") in Stockholm 1948.

For many years she worked regularly with Ingmar Bergman; among other films, Thulin appeared in Bergman's Wild Strawberries (film) (1957), The Magician (where she acted dressed as a boy), in Winter Light (1962), as well as The Silence (1963) and Cries and Whispers (1972).

She shared the best actress award at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival and received a Guldbagge Award as best actress in 1964, the first year the award was given out, for her performance in The Silence. Winner of the David di Donatello Awards 1974, Thulin was also been nominated for the BAFTA Award the same year. In 1980, she was the head of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2]

She was married to Harry Schein, the founder of the Swedish Film Institute, for more than 30 years until 1989, although they had lived separately for many years before the divorce. She bought an apartment in Paris, France in the early 1960s and some years later a beach house in San Felice Circeo, south of Rome. In 1970 she became a resident of Sacrofano (Italy), where she lived for 34 years.

She returned to Sweden for medical treatment and later died from cancer in Stockholm, Sweden, 20 days shy of her 78th birthday. Her memories were published in 1992 ("Någon jag kände" ("Somebody I knew"); Norstedts Förlag, ISBN 91-1-919472-2).

Partial filmography[link]

• Leva på 'Hoppet' (1951)
  Director: Göran Gentele
• Foreign Intrigue (1956)
  with Robert Mitchum
  Director: Sheldon Reynolds
• Smultronstället / Wild Strawberries (1957)
  with Victor Sjöström
  Director: Ingmar Bergman
• Ansiktet / The Magician (1958)
  Director: Ingmar Bergman
• Domaren / The Judge (1960)
  Director: Alf Sjöberg
• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
  with Glenn Ford
  Director: Vincente Minnelli
• Nattvardsgästerna / Winter Light (1962)
  with Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow and Gunnel Lindblom
• Tystnaden / The Silence (1963)
  with Gunnel Lindblom
  Director: Ingmar Bergman
• The War Is Over (1966)
  with Yves Montand
  Director: Alain Resnais
• Vargtimmen / Hour of the Wolf (1968)
  with Max von Sydow
  Director: Ingmar Bergman
• The Damned (1969) with Helmut Berger
  Director: Luchino Visconti
• Viskningar och Rop / Cries and Whispers (1972)
  with Liv Ullmann, Harriet Andersson
  Director: Ingmar Bergman
• A Handful of Love (1974)
  Director: Vilgot Sjöman
• Salon Kitty (1975)
  with Helmut Berger
  Director: Tinto Brass
• La Cage (1976)
  with Lino Ventura
  Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
• Efter repetitionen / After the Rehearsal (1984)
  with Erland Josephson
  Director: Ingmar Bergman
• Il Giorno Prima / Contrôle (1987)
  with Ben Gazzara, Burt Lancaster, Kate Nelligan
  Director: Giuliano Montaldo

Further reading[link]

• Cowie, Peter (1970): Sweden 1. An Illustrated Guide ... to the Work of the Leading Directors, Players, Technicians, and other Key Figures in Swedish Cinema, with Credits and Plot outlines to more than seventy important Films, and Index to 1,000 Titles, A. Zwemmer Ltd., London
• Cowie (1970): Sweden 2. A Comprehensive Assessment of the Themes, Trends, and Directors in Swedish Cinema, A. Zwemmer Ltd., London
• Cowie (1977): Film in Sweden. Stars and Players, Tantivy Press, London (ISBN 0-498-02013-4)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Ingrid Thulin at the Internet Movie Database
• Ingrid Thulin at the Internet Broadway Database
• Ingrid Thulin Official Website (Swedish)
• Ingmar Bergman Face to Face on Ingrid Thulin
• Bergman's leading lady dies at 76
• Bergmanorama on Ingrid Thulin
• Ingrid Thulin: Northern Light
• Ingrid Thulin at Find a Grave

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Born	Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-01-29)29 January 1867 Valencia, Spain
Died	28 January 1928(1928-01-28) (aged 60) Menton, France
Resting place	Valencia Cemetery
Language	Spanish
Nationality	Spanish
Literary movement	Realism

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (29 January 1867 – 28 January 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director.

Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis. Filmed in 1921 as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, it was filmed again in 1962, reset in World War II. However, in his time he was a best-selling author inside and outside of Spain, and also known for his controversial political activities. While Sangre y arena (Blood and Sand) and Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis are his most popular novels, particularly outside of Spain, his Valencian novels such as La barraca and Cañas y barro are the ones most valued by scholars.

He finished studying law, but hardly practiced. He divided his time between politics, literature and dalliances with women, of whom he was a deep admirer. He wrote with uncanny speed and energy. He was a fan of Miguel de Cervantes.

His life, it can be said, tells a more interesting story than his novels. He was a militant Republican partisan in his youth and founded a newspaper, El Pueblo (translated as either The Town or The People) in his hometown. The newspaper aroused so much controversy that it was brought to court many times and censored. He made many enemies and was shot and almost killed in one dispute. The bullet was caught in the clasp of his belt. He had several stormy love affairs.

He volunteered as the proofreader for the novel Noli Me Tangere, in which the Filipino patriot José Rizal expressed his contempt of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. He travelled to Argentina in 1909 where two new cities, Nueva Valencia and Cervantes, were created. He gave conferences on historical events and Spanish literature. Tired and disgusted with government failures and inaction, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez moved to Paris at the beginning of World War I.

He was a supporter of the Allies in World War I.

His themes include his native Valencia.

He died in Menton, France in 1928, the day before his 61st birthday, in the residence of Fontana Rosa (also named the House of Writers, dedicated to Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Dickens and Honoré de Balzac) that he built.

Woman Triumphant, a translation of La maja desnuda by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez into English

Works[link]

• A los pies de Venus
• Argentina y sus grandezas
• Arroz y tartana at Project Gutenberg (1894)
• Cañas y barro,^[1] about life among the fishermen-peasants of the Albufera marshes in Valencia. Also a Spanish TV series.
• Cuentos valencianos
• El caballero de la virgen
• El establo de Eva, short story (1902)
• El intruso, about immigration to the Basque Country
• El oriente
• El papa del mar, about the antipope Benedict XIII, who established his court at Peñíscola.
• El parásito del tren,short story (1902)
• El paraíso de las mujeres at Project Gutenberg
• El préstamo de la difunta at Project Gutenberg
• En busca del Gran Khan
• Entre naranjos,^[2] another Valencian piece. Also a Spanish TV series.
• Fantasma de las alas de oro
• Flor de mayo
• La araña negra (1892)
• La Barraca at Project Gutenberg
• La bodega
• La Catedral at Project Gutenberg
• La horda
• La maja desnuda, novel with title inspired on Goya's painting Nude "Maja".
• La Pared
• La reina Calafia (1924)
• La Tierra de Todos at Project Gutenberg
• Los argonautas
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis),^[3] about Argentina and the First World War. Several times filmed.^[4] Best seller in the United States in 1919.
• Los muertos mandan
• Luna Benamor
• Mare Nostrum, a spy novel in the Mediterranean. Filmed in 1926.
• Novelas de la costa azul
• Blood and Sand (Sangre y arena), about a matador in a love triangle. Filmed several times.
• Vistas sudamericanas
• Voluntad de vivir
• Vuelta del mundo de un novelista, a travelogue.

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Works by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez at Project Gutenberg
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the original Spanish with English translation