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Blood and Sand

192280 minUnited States
RomanceDrama
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
103:22
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Fred Niblo · Public domain

Synopsis

Juan Gallardo rises from poverty to become a celebrated bullfighter and marries his childhood sweetheart. Fame brings him into the orbit of a wealthy woman whose attention unsettles the marriage and his concentration in the arena. As desire and guilt undermine his confidence, the public success that seemed to secure his future becomes inseparable from physical danger.

Cast

DirectorsFred Niblo

Behind the scenes

June Mathis adapted Blasco Ibáñez's novel for Valentino. Editor Dorothy Arzner combined existing footage of Spanish bullfights with closer views of the star, joining spectacle and performance without requiring every image to come from the same setting.

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