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Bullfighter and the Lady is a american film of genre Drama directed by Budd Boetticher released in USA on 26 april 1951 with Robert Stack
Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
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Add to a movie listBullfighter and the Lady is a 1951 drama film directed and written by Budd Boetticher. Filmed on location in Mexico, the film focused on the realities of the dangerous sport of bullfighting. During production, one stunt man died. Boetticher, who had experience in bullfighting, used a semidocumentary approach in filming the sport and the lives of matadors.
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Chuck Regan (Robert Stack), a young American film producer travels to Mexico, where he takes up bullfighting to impress a local beauty, Anita de la Vega (Joy Page). Manolo Estrada (Gilbert Roland), an aging matador, reluctantly agrees to teach the brash, self-centered Regan.Actors
Robert Stack
(John Regan)
Joy Page
(Anita de la Vega)
Gilbert Roland
(Manolo Estrada)
Virginia Grey
(Lisbeth Flood)
John Hubbard
(Barney Flood)
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