Arruza (1972)

Eight years in the making, Boetticher’s portrait of his longtime friend, the famous bullfighter Carlos Arruza, was a labor of love that the renowned director of westerns pursued despite contending with illnesses, bankruptcy, jail time, and lucrative offers from Hollywood. The result is an astonishing work of poetry, immediacy, and violence that fearlessly wrestles with the filmmaker’s own ambivalence about the titular matador’s triumphs prior to his death by automobile accident at the age of 46.

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Carlos Arruza
as Himself

Anthony Quinn
as Narrator

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Budd Boetticher
Director

Budd Boetticher
Writer

Lucien Ballard
Director of Photography

Raúl Lavista
Original Music Composer

Harry V. Knapp
Editor

George Crone
Editor

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