Himself
Eight years in the making, Boetticher’s portrait of his longtime friend, the famous bullfighter Carlos Arruza, was a labor of love that the renowned director of westerns pursued despite contending with illnesses, bankruptcy, jail time, and lucrative offers from Hollywood. The result is an astonishing work of poetry, immediacy, and violence that fearlessly wrestles with the filmmaker’s own ambivalence about the titular matador’s triumphs prior to his death by automobile accident at the age of 46.
Lt. Reyes
Em 1836, o general Santa Anna (Ruben Padilla) e o exército mexicano estão varrendo o Texas. Para poder detê-lo, o general Sam Huston (Richard Boone) precisa de tempo para criar uma resistência. Tentando obter este tempo, ele ordena que o coronel William Travis (Laurence Harvey) defenda uma pequena missão a todo custo na rota dos mexicanos. A pequena tropa de Travis recebe o reforço de grupos que acompanham Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) e Davy Crockett (John Wayne), mas a situação se torna desesperadora. Travis deixa claro que não haverá vergonha se eles partirem enquanto podem, mas cento e oitenta e dois homens decidem fazer uma resistência heróica no forte Álamo.
Himself
The life of the famed Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, from his boyhood through his training and the triumphs that followed as Procuna rose to the peak of his profession. Written by Jim Beaver
The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, the audience - and involves numerous matadors from the era.
Carlos / Fernando
Professional bullfighter pretends to his girlfriend that he's a doctor, because her father hates bullfighters and would never let her marry one. Meanwhile...
