Blood and Sand (1941 film)

Blood and Sand 1941 is a Technicolor film produced by 20th Century Fox, directed by Rouben Mamoulian 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 Ibez.

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 fathers 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.Ten years later Juan Gallardo Tyrone Power returns to Seville. He has become a matador and uses his winnings from Madrid to help his impoverished family. He sets his mother Alla Nazimova up in a fine house and ends her existence as a scrubwoman. He lavishes money on his sister Encarnacion Lynn Bari and her fianc Antonio William Montague so they can open a business and wed. He hires exbullfighter Garabato J. Carrol Naish, who has become a beggar, as his servant. Best of all he is now able to marry his childhood sweetheart Carmen Linda Darnell as he had promised. ........

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