El Cid with Charlton Heston: DVD Cover
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El Cid Director: Anthony Mann Cast: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Gary Raymond

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  • DVD Release Date: 01/29/2008
  • Original Release: 1961
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 3,896

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Disc 1 - Feature commentary with Bill Bronston (son of producer Samuel Bronston) and Neal M. Rosendorf (historian & biographer of Samuel Bronston); Vintage radio interviews with Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren; Still galleries; Filmographies; Disc 2 - Hollywood conquers Spain: the making of El Cid; Samuel Bronston: the epic journey of a dreamer; Behind the camera: Anthony Mann and El Cid; Miklós Rózsa: maestro of the movies; Preserving our legacy: Gerry Byrne of film preservation and restoration; Trailer gallery

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Disc #1 -- Cid
1. Overture [3:27]
2. Opening Titles [2:43]
3. Spain, 1080 [2:37]
4. The Shortest Road [2:20]
5. We Call Such a Man 'El Cid' [5:23]
6. How Love Keeps Time [2:55]
7. Tell Me What Has Happened [6:56]
8. How Can They Call it Treason? [4:21]
9. Can a Man Live Without Honor? [10:38]
10. Take Up the Gauntlet [4:39]
11. The Fight For Calahorra [8:55]
12. Then I Will Kill Him [1:32]
13. May You Vanquish All Our Enemies [3:59]
14. Betrayed by a Christian Saved by a Moor [3:59]
15. Volo! [3:21]
16. Small Ghosts [4:11]
17. A Wound too Deep [2:35]
18. Not Within These Walls [1:12]
19. The Kingdom Will Not Be Divided [3:21]
20. Thriteen Times Thirteen [:27]
21. Our Moment Has Come [3:39]
22. It Must Happen Without Me [3:29]
23. Almost a King [2:36]
24. A Queen's Demand [5:04]
25. Oath on the Holy Books [2:05]
26. Exiled [5:23]
27. There is Only One Man... [1:44]
28. There Are Eyes Everywhere [3:57]
29. A New Life [1:25]
30. For Spain! [2:44]
31. The Severed Arm [2:05]
32. The Dream Was Short [:58]
Disc #2 -- Cid
1. Summoned by the King [3:07]
2. Our Best Protection [4:26]
3. Bend of the River [2:03]
4. It Takes More Than Courage [3:58]
5. Am I Not a Man, Too? [1:16]
6. Help Me to Escape [1:43]
7. The Ride into Camp [3:53]
8. We Bring You Bread [6:44]
9. The Crown of Valencia [4:38]
10. The Coming Storm [5:25]
11. A Single Arrow [8:39]
12. The Heart is Wounded [3:03]
13. Two Promises to Keep [8:59]
14. Out of the Gates of History [6:05]
15. End Credits [:13]
16. Exit Music [2:03]

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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 conquerors. The triumphs of El Cid's military life are not matched by his private affairs; he is betrayed by his bride Chimene (Sophia Loren) and is made a political pawn by the avaricious Spanish landowners. El Cid has a climax unique in the annals of movie epics: the final assault against the landgrabbers is led by a dead hero. El Cid established the short but generally profitable reign of producer Samuel Bronston as the King of the Epics; his imprint on the film is much stronger than that of director Anthony Mann. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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