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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1941 DVD Release: 05/01/2007 Format: DVD - Color Edition: Dual Layered,Restored/Remastered Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 5 mins Studio: 20th Century Fox Members Wishing: 9 Genres: Drama, Romance, Romantic Drama, Melodrama

Based on the novel by Vincente Blasco Ibanez, Blood and Sand is the beautifully rendered story of the rise and fall of a young, cocksure Spanish bullfighter, played by Tyrone Power. Working his way slowly up the ladder to success, Power achieves fame when he is praised to skies by fatuous, fickle critic Laird Cregar. A country boy at heart, Power finds himself way over his head with sophisticates, and is soon torn between his pious and faithful wife Linda Darnell and sexy, mercenary Rita Hayworth. It is Darnell, however, who comforts Power after his final, fatal goring in the bull ring. The film's best scenes depict the curious combination of horror and fascination with which bullfighting aficionados treat this most barbaric of "sports." Blood and Sand was previously filmed in 1922 with Rudolph Valentino; a Valentino contemporary, Alla Nazimova, plays Power's mother in the remakes. Portions of this film turned up as stock footage in the 1945 Laurel and Hardy comedy The Bullfighters. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Tyrone Power - Juan Gallardo
Linda Darnell - Carmen Espinosa
Rita Hayworth - Dona Sol des Muire
Alla Nazimova - Senora Augustias
Anthony Quinn - Manolo de Palma
J. Carrol Naish - Garabato