LoginEl Cid [Region 2] - Region 2 DVD
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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 wit
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Manufacturer: Universal Pictures Video
Release date: 30 October 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0044007806029 UPC: 044007806029
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Release date: 30 October 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0044007806029 UPC: 044007806029
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