El Cid is a 1961 historical epic film, a highly romanticized story of the life of the Castilian knight El Cid.
Made by Samuel Bronston Productions in association with The Rank Organisation and released by Allied Artists, the film was directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston with Jaime Prades and Michal Waszynski as associate producers. The screenplay was by Philip Yordan, Ben Barzman and Fredric M. Frank from a story by Fredric M....
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El Cid is a 1961 historical epic film, a highly romanticized story of the life of the Castilian knight El Cid.
Made by Samuel Bronston Productions in association with The Rank Organisation and released by Allied Artists, the film was directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston with Jaime Prades and Michal Waszynski as associate producers. The screenplay was by Philip Yordan, Ben Barzman and Fredric M. Frank from a story by Fredric M. Frank. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa, the cinematography by Robert Krasker and the editing by Robert Lawrence.
The film starred
The film was shot on location in Spain - including the castles of Belmonte (Cuenca) and Peñíscola (Castellón) - while a few studio scenes were shot in Rome purely to achieve the financial gains of co-production status.
Ramon Menendez Pidal, the foremost 20th Century Spanish authority on El Cid and the Spanish middle ages was the “historical adviser in the making of the film El Cid, and the overall...
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