The music is the star | Captain From Castile [VHS]

Wonderful in every regard! | Captain From Castile [VHS] | Tyrone Power, Jean Peters

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	• Captain From Castile [VHS] Tyrone Power, Jean Peters 20th Century Fox, 1997 average customer review:based on 36 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A classic film: Captain from Castile

Before ordering the film version of "Captain from Castile" I re-read Samuel Shellabarger's novel of the same name, and it would be a bit unfair to criticize the film because of what it doesn't include. It would have required a film of twice the length -- i.e., over four hours -- to even approach that.

For entertainment value, however, this is a great movie. Tyrone Power is at his handsome best (not a lot of swashbuckling here), Lee J. Cobb gives, as usual, an excellent performance, and John Sutton, as the local leader of the inquisition in Caen, Spain, plays the villainous Diego de Silva without quite going over the top. Jean Peters makes a lovely Catana Peres, and Cesar Romero ("By my beard, Gentlemen") gives his performance of Hernan Cortes an air of gung-ho conqueror that plays well in this version of the Spanish invasion of Mexico. All in all, a most enjoyable film

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The music is the star

I bought this DVD for one reason: the beautiful musical score by Alfred Newman. It also has another asset: the gorgeous cinematography. I was entranced by the music when I saw it many years ago, and looked forward to the DVD. It was a long time coming, possibly because the story (about the looting of Montezuma's treasures by Cortez) was considered politically incorrect. For whatever reason, I'm glad it's finally available. The movie is pretty good in itself, and Jean Peters and Tyrone Power are pretty as well.

Wonderful in every regard!

If you liked Zorro with Catherine Zeta
and Antonio Banderas..you are going to
love this incredible historical, romance,
adventure block-buster with the wonderful
Tyrone Power and the beautiful Jean Peters
......they are terrific together! Great
story and acting. Great music..the Trojan
Theme Conquest runs throughout!

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Great Movie, great Actor terrible Presentation

Great Movie. Great Actor. But come on, Full Screen not Wide Screen! Stereo not Digital. Shame on Fox.

Great full-scale epic!

Tyrone Power, once Fox's golden boy in the late 30s and early 40s, had begun to fade upon his return from military service. However, epic adventure novels had become very prominent on the NY Times BestSeller list, and Captain From Castile was at the top of the lists. Fox took a chance on their fading star and gave him a first-rate production of a story which suited him to perfection. Tyrone still looked good, before his lifestyle and alcohol had taken their inevitable tolls.

This is a story incorporating the Spanish Inquisition, murder, flight to the Americas to aid Cortez' conquest of Mexico, passionate love, and all in exquisite Technicolor. Oddly, Fox followed up the popularity of CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE with another best-seller with Tyrone Power, and filmed PRINCE OF FOXES in black and white! Of course it bombed.

Tyrone Power is at his peak, and we have a fine performance from Jean Peters (her first), and a wonderful supporting cast which includes Lee J. Cobb, Alan Mowbray and John Sutton. It is still one of the best adventure films ever made.

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