Title: El Cid (Trailer & FULL MOVIE Epic, 1961, *Charlton Heston/Sophia Loren*) Source:
YT URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE7QDaBoo_4 Published:Jan 3, 2018 Author:Screenbound Pictures Post Date:2020-04-12 15:43:28 by Liberator Keywords:Movie, Epic, Classic Views:6403 Comments:22
(From the Trailer):
Legendary 11th Century Spanish patriot El Cid (Charlton Heston), who fights to drive invading Moors from Spain. He has a seductive but duplicitous lover Chimene (Sophia Loren). However, their love is tested to its limits when he kills her father, she vows vengeance and he sets out on a crusade to rid Spain of its aggressors.
From the initial movie dialogue (FULL MOVIE, below), Moslem leader Emir Yosef, bellows to his troops:
"The Prophet is commanded us to rule the world...Where in all your land of Spain there is the glory of Allah!...
"...Where are your warriors?!? You dare call yourselves sons of the prophet? YOU HAVE BECOME WOMEN!!
"Burn your books; Make warriors of your poets; Let your doctors invent new poisons for our arrows; Let your scientists invent new war machines; And then....KILL!!....BURN!!....Infidels...
"And when they are weak and torn I will sweep up from Africa, and thus the Empire of the one God, the true God Allah will spread across Spain! Then...across Europe...THEN...the whole world!"
Poster Comment:
First of all, Happy Easter!
They don't make 'em like this any more. Movies like this should not be forgotten.
'El Cid' represents the kind of magnificent 1950s-early 1960s Hollywood epics that were once made for a public that especially paid homage to the history, roots and heritage of Western Civilization.
Film audiences for this brief era were extremely respected and inspired by Hollywood's film-makers and producers. They created high-budget spirited stories and accounts, embellished by spectacular soundtracks and composers (Miklos Rozsa), breathtaking scenery, included casts of thousands, and memorable performances -- notably by the iconic Charlton Heston.
El Cid was a true epic. It's run-time clocks in at over 3 hours long, back when (if any of you are old enough to recall) there was actually a thing called, "INTERMISSION".
This movie is FREE TO WATCH.
On a final note and observation...
The opening dialog by the Moslem general was especially interesting and ironic. Nothing about Islam's philosophy and goal of world dominance via murder and violence has ever changed; Nor has it's focus and pledge to forfeit advances in the sciences, arts, and humanities changed.
