Behold a Pale Horse
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Actor: Anthony Quinn, Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Paolo Stoppa, Raymond PellegrinBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); Korean (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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DVD Review: rare curiosity but not very real
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a film about two fictitious personages probably based in real persons, the first, Manuel Artiguez, an ex combatant of the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. At the beginning of the movie, there's 20 years after - about 1960- and Artiguez is exiled in the Basque Country of South France. I think Artiguez is a personage based in two real people: one, a militant from ETA, the revolutionary Basque organization, and the other, a real Catalan guerrillero, Francisco Sabater who was killed by Franco's police exactly in 1960 in Catalonia in a fierce open final confrontation. Sabater used to commit robberies in Barcelona and Catalonia including many assaults with firearms and killings. Finally he was machine gunned while jumping from a train, but it was the police which killed him, not Guardia Civil, a corps slightly different.
Viñolas, the personage played by Antony Quinn isn't so real. This Guardia Civil is mostly an unbelievable puppet, plenty of topics about Spain as seen from abroad (the bullfight, etc is pure cliché). Franco's police wasn't folkloric but a very efficient corps partially trained by the nazis.
The plot is Artiguez mother is terminally ill in an hospital in the Spanish side of Basque Country. This fact is used by Viñolas for trapping him, spreading the rumor of the disease of Artiguez mother along the French - Spanish frontier, as in the movie this fight is shown mostly as a personal question pendent between the two men dating from the days of the war, resting the political facets in a secondary level.
Well... the physical aspect of Gregory Peck is very unlikely for a Spaniard grown up in the poverty of the Spain from the first third of XXth century, because Peck I think was a tall man, rare to see in Spain until almost now.
Finally, in Spain, this film could be seen, but it seems to me to remember only in the late days of Franco or soon after his death, I'm not sure now. It's a rare and curious work but not really good cinema because Zinnemann charged too much in the peculiarities of Spanish topics.
And if you want to see a movie much more real about this theme or similar, you can see "Hormigas en la boca" ("Ants in the mouth") a very good Spanish film from 2006, but much more hard.
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Description of Behold a Pale Horse
MANUEL ARTIGUEZ, A FAMOUS BANDIT DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR,HAS LIVED IN FRENCH EXILE FOR 20 YEARS. WHEN HIS MOTHER IS DYINGHE CONSIDERS VISITING HER SECRETLY IN HIS SPANISH HOME TOWN. BUTHIS BIGGEST ENEMY, THE SPANISH POLICE OFFICER VINOLAS, PREPARED A TRAP AT THE HOSPITAL AS A CHANCE TO FINALLY CATCH ARTIGUEZ.Bestsellers in DVD
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