El Cid (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (The Miriam Collection)
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Actor: Andrew Cruickshank, Barbara Everest, Carlo Giustini, Charlton Heston, Sophia LorenBrand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
Cinematographer: Robert Krasker
Cinematographer: Manuel Berenguer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 188 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-29
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Miriam Collection
DVD Reviews of El Cid (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (The Miriam Collection)
DVD Review: Hollywood at its finest
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this movie as a child, yes,it is Hollywood at it 60s finest. Very entertaining even if the costumes and sets are a little to perfect for the actual time period.DVD Review: El Cid
Summary: 5 Stars
The Deluxe package of El Cid has tons of info that is usually associated with these kinds of issues. The film itself is simply geogeous and from a time when the "cast of thousands" were real people and not digitally produced. The story itself is a bit weak, expecially toward the very end, (there will no plot reveals here), but the sweeping tale of Rodrigo Bovar is so romantic and so beautiful, it makes one yearn for the days when the movie screens were so much bigger than todays multiplex. I watched the film on a old analog set and the film is still a sight to behold. Maybe Heston and Sophia not at their best -but it is a joy to look at.DVD Review: History our future
Summary: 5 Stars
To know what is happening with Muslims today, start at the beginning. This movie will awake you from your sleep.DVD Review: Amazon Classic Movie Purchase
Summary: 5 Stars
I received the video on time and it was new. It is a classic movie which both my husband and i have enjoyed again after so many years. The price for the movie such as this was great. Thank you Amazon. DVD Review: a good gift for your dad
Summary: 5 Stars
My dad is a big movie fan, he also like Charlton Heston's movies. When he saw the movie here, he asked me to buy it. It's a good classic movie
Description of El Cid (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (The Miriam Collection)
Anthony Mann masterfully directs this classic tale of the 11th-century hero (Heston) who fought to unite Spain. Known as history's "compassionate warrior," the film follows El Cid's remarkable journey from peace-broker accused of treason to the King's fighting champion, and later from exiled hero to legendary martyr.Technically ambitious but artistically underwhelming, this 1961 epic by Anthony Mann (Man of the West) stars Charlton Heston as an 11th-century hero who drives the Moors from Spain. The film has been described as "glum," and that is indeed apt for a story that focuses so much on its central character's losses in the face of his simultaneous, mythic approbation. Then again, Mann has always been interested in the hidden weaknesses in prevailing myths, so that's not unusual. What is unusual in El Cid is the degree to which technology takes over his filmmaking, as it does here with so many grandiose and bravura moments with a roving camera that don't add up to anything beyond spectacle. As an achievement of Hollywood's technical advancements in the postwar years, and also as part of the filmographies of Mann and Heston, the film is well worth a look. But it is not the artistic equal of other epics of its day, such as Lawrence of Arabia. --Tom Keogh
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