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Unable to be on hand for the Hollywood ceremony, Jose (Cyrano de Bergerac) Ferrer flew down to San Juan to get his 1950 Oscar from the hands of Governor Luis Muñoz Marín. Native son Ferrer then presented the Oscar to the University of Puerto Rico in the name of his late father, a prominent local lawyer...
While faithfully retelling the story of a matador (Mel Ferrer) who loses his nerve and gets it back again, Producer Rossen upsets the book's delicate balance between the tawdriness and nobility of bullfighting. He succeeds best, if at undue length, in picturing the bull ring much as he showed the prize ring in Body and Soul-as a commercialized racket that feeds its parasites, thrills its fickle crowds and lacerates its heroes in body and spirit. Despite some lip service in dialogue and commentary, he fails to do justice to bullfighting as an art, a code of honor...
Like the script, Actor Ferrer* never gets inside the character, and Mexico's Actress Miroslava, a blonde edition of Rita Hayworth, protrudes from the Mexican atmosphere like a stock Hollywood femme fatale. Aficionados can take some solace in Director Rossen's bullfighting scenes, well-staged within Production Code limits, and the movie's wealth of such local color as a bull-breeding ranch and a religious street pageant...
Both Actors Ferrer and Holliday, said the committee, had "been affiliated with from five to ten" Communist-front organizations, and Ferrer was also accused of giving "open support to Communist candidates in election campaigns." Both Actors Ferrer and Holliday promptly denied...
Cyrano de Bergerac. José Ferrer's Oscar-winning acting sparks a conscientious adaptation of the Rostand classic (TIME...