The Magnificent Matador
| The Magnificent Matador | |
|---|---|
20th Century Fox | |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Magnificent Matador is a 1955 American
Plot
 | This article needs a plot summary. (April 2021) |
Cast
- Maureen O'Hara as Karen Harrison
- Anthony Quinn as Luís Santos
- Manuel Rojas as Rafael Reyes
- Richard Denning as Mark Russell
- Thomas Gomez as Don David
- Lola Albright as Mona Wilton
- William Ching as Jody Wilton
- Eduardo Noriega as Miguel
- Stuart Whitman as Man in the Arena
- Lorraine Chanel as Sarita Sebastian
- Anthony Caruso as Emiliano
- Jesus 'Chucho' Solorzano as himself
- Joaquín Rodríguez 'Cagancho' as himself
- Rafael Rodríguez as himself
- Antonio Velasquez as himself
- Jorge 'Ranchero' Aguilar as himself
Production
Budd Boetticher said he wrote the film for Quinn who had "won two Academy Awards, and he couldn't get a job. So I wrote a script, and the studio changed the title to The Magnificent Matador, which is about the worst title you can imagine. He was typed; he couldn't get work, so I wrote a script in which he was the star. Maureen O'Hara played the opposite lead; she was great, the greatest lady I ever worked with. The picture was OK, but I was happier about what it did for Anthony Quinn. We put him in a that gold suit, and he was a star! He wasn't a star in Viva Zapata (1952), he was a character actor, and The Magnificent Matador made him a star of the first magnitude."[3]
References
- ^ Crowther, Bosley (May 25, 1955). "Movie Review - The Magnificent Matador - Screen: Bulls Sans Fight; ' Magnificent Matador' Shows Little of Peril". The New York Times. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
- ^ "The Magnificent Matador (1955) - Overview". TCM. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
- ^ Budd Boetticher: The Last Interview Wheeler, Winston Dixon. Film Criticism; Meadville Vol. 26, no. 3, (Spring 2002): 52-0_3.
External links
- The Magnificent Matador at IMDb
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