Word: jimena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begin with, Philip Yordan has written a screenplay that makes an educated exegesis of the legend and plenty of dramatic sense. For the first few reels. Yordan pretty much follows the plot of Corneille's play. Don Rodrigo (Charlton Heston), betrothed to Jimena (Sophia Loren). is forced by the code of chivalry to kill her father in defense of his own father's honor. Jimena. in turn, though she loves Rodrigo madly, is forced to seek revenge. So much for Corneille. From there out, Yordan collects vivid scraps of incident from the teeming, demi-mythological Matter of Spain...
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