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Blood and Sand (1941) is a Technicolor film directed by Rouben Mamoulian, produced by 20th Century Fox, and starring Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, and Alla Nazimova. It is based on the critical 1908 Spanish novel about bullfighting, Blood and Sand (Sangre y arena), by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. The supporting cast features Anthony Quinn, Lynn Bari, Laird Cregar, J. Carrol Naish, John Carradine and George Reeves.
Rita Hayworth's singing voice was dubbed by Gracilla Pirraga.
There are two earlier versions of Blood and Sand, a 1922 version produced by Paramount Pictures, and starring Rudolph Valentino, and a 1916 version filmed by Blasco Ibáñez himself, with the help of Max André. There is also a 1989 version starring Christopher Rydell and Sharon Stone.
This film was the fourth and last in which Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell worked together, others were; Day-Time Wife (1939); Brigham Young (1940) and The Mark of Zorro (1940).
As a child Juan Gallardo (Rex Downing – young boy) wants only to become a bullfighter like his dead father. One night he has an argument with the pompous critic Natalio Curro (Laird Cregar) about his father's lack of talent in the bullring. The argument spurs Juan to travel to Madrid and achieve his dreams of success in the bullring. Before leaving he promises his aristocratic sweetheart Carmen Espinosa (Linda Darnell) he will return when he is a success and marry her.
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.
Keywords: ambition, animal-attack, based-on-novel, bullfighter, bullfighting, cantina, celebrity, childhood-sweetheart, christ-symbol, corrida
Juan Gallardo: [to Antonio Lopez and Encarnacíon] They say that when a ship is sinking all the rats leave.::Juan Gallardo: Good-bye, rats! But you're mistaken if you think I'm sinking!
Juan Gallardo: Carmen ceta, you're the only true one in the world.
Juan Gallardo: [to Carmen] Someday I'll come back to you with a whole trunkful of clippings, and when you marry me, you'll marry the first torero of Spain, not the second or third, but the first, the greatest!
Juan Gallardo: The cow hasn't been born yet that can give birth to the bull that can hurt me!
Juan Gallardo: [to Garabato] I wouldn't admit this to anybody else in the world... but always when I'm dressing like this... there's a feel of rust in my throat, the taste of death... Fear! But it's gone when I step into the arena. The minute I hear the music, the yell of the crowd, it's all right again.
Natalio Curro: [to members of the bullfighting crowd] You're lucky to be here this afternoon. You'll see history made. From now on the history of the bull ring will be figured as B.G. and A. G. - Before Gallardo and After Gallardo! I, Curro, say it!
Natalio Curro: At last Seville has a matador, the greatest matador of all history, a saint, the first man of the world! The day he was born, there was salt in the air! A great quantity of salt! [laughs]
Carmen Espinosa: All my life I have heard about you.::Doña Sol des Muire: What have you heard?::Carmen Espinosa: Shall I be frank?::Carmen Espinosa: Please do!::Carmen Espinosa: I've heard you've been all over the world, that you speak many languages, and that you've known a great many men...::Doña Sol des Muire: Go on!::Carmen Espinosa: I've never been out of Andalucia, I speak only one language, and I've had only one man. Maybe that's why I want so much to keep him.::Doña Sol des Muire: Senora Gallardo, is there anything I can offer you?::Carmen Espinosa: Yes, my husband!
Juan Gallardo: [to Antonio] Well, now as my manager it'll be much easier for you to rob me!
Natalio Curro: [referring to Dona Sol at the arena] If this is death in the afternoon, she is death in the evening.
blood and sand [x4]
what world filled with black
and which point of collapse
becall you crystal gazers
becall you philostines
water melting
decayed and angry
collapse [collapse]...collapse [collapse]...
collapse [collapse]...collapse [collapse]...
what i can't runs[pulls] my fingers
from the burning metal sign
is this the only way to say a prayer?
are your's the only eyes that stare?
what world filled with black instead of
sedatives...sedatives...sedatives...sedatives...
my nails will break my spine [my nails will break my spine]...
my nails will break my spine [my nails will break my spine]...
my nails will break my spine [my nails will break my spine]...
my nails will break my spine [my nails will break my spine]...
blood and sand [x8]