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When French playwright Pierre Corneille wrote El Cid, a fanciful version of the life of 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, aka "El Cid", an attempt was made to honor the "classic unities" and to compress the whole story into a single day! Be assured that the 1961 film version of El Cid is more faithful to the actual chronology. Charlton Heston adds one more character to his gallery of historical portrayals as El Cid, the disgraced Spanish knight who rids his country of its Moorish
Unrated, 3 hr. 4 min.
Dec 14, 1961 Wide
Jan 29, 2008
Miramax
All Critics (18) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (2) | DVD (12)
Starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren at their prime, Anthony Mann's grand historical epic is still much admired by viewers and directors.
Handsome chivalry epic with enduring themes.
Charleton Heston is the perfect mythic conflicted hero.
An epic on the cusp of two eras. Dated, but well crafted. The "Miriam Collection" fills the box.
(D)irector Anthony Mann uses his stunning locations and choreographs his armies and crowds magnificently... corralling it into the frame like an old master...
A deluxe DVD package to match the grandeur of Mann's admirable epic.
To say that El Cid is the most intelligent of the elephantine epics of the early '60s is to damn it with faint praise.
Anchored by yet another stellar Charleton Heston performance and propelled by director Anthony Mann's sense of scale, El Cid is the kind of good old fashioned filmmaking that truly satisfies the deepest inner cravings of an aesthetic starved movie
Not many filmmakers could make the transition to epic filmmaking with all their signature touches intact; Anthony Mann more or less succeeds.
entertaining epic
Produção baseada na lendária história do herói espanhol, El Cid faz parte do mesmo tecido dos grandes épicos hollywoodianos populares nas décadas de 50 e 60: filme de costumes, cenas de batalhas épicas, tela larga (neste caso em Technirama), trilha retumbante de Miklós Rósza e, é claro, Charlton Heston no papel
August 13, 2011Super Reviewer
Yes this movie is insanely long, but it's also insanely fantastic too! I loved Loren and Heston together in this movie. The story is epic, and I'm surprised they haven't made more movies of it. I love this movie, and I highly recommend it.
September 5, 2010Super Reviewer
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