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Blood and Sand
Blood and Sand
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Blood and Sand

Original Title: Sangre y Arena

1917
1h 5m

Status

Released

Release

1917

Runtime

1h 5m

Storyline

Since Juan Gallardo was a child wishes to be a bullfighter and he achieves to be come a recognizable figure. He marries Carmen, his childhood friend, but he fall s in love with the widow of a diplomat, a sophisticated woman of the world with whom he starts a relationship that will end up destroying him. While he is recovering be cause he had been severely gored in his sevillian house, Juan receives a visit f rom his great admirer the bandit “Plumitas” who makes him see the parallelism be tween their life experiences. The visit is interrupted with the Civil Guard lying in wait of the bandit. Juan drifts a long time from failure to failure because he is now a fraid of the bull and he is again humiliated by his beloved Mrs. Sol. Finally he gets a bullfight in Madrid and Carmen, his wife, has a bad omen and comes to the bullring.

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 5m
May 11, 1917
Languages
No Language
Director
Ricardo de Baños
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Production
Barcinógrafo
Barcinógrafo
Production Countries
Spain

Top Cast

4 Cast Members

P. Alcaide

Mark Andrews

Matilde Domenech

José Portes

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