Word: madrileno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretty good picture, all in all, one of the best of the bad lot that has been made in Spain in the last 20 years. The remarkable thing is that it was made at all. In the midst of the shooting schedule, Director Juan Bardem, a 35-year-old Madrileno whose liberal opinions had not endeared him to the secret police of Franco's Spain, was awakened one chill dawn by a knock on the door. After eleven days of questioning in jail and protests by French intellectuals, he was released and allowed to finish the film. The experience...
...back of the shop. There, while both of them kept a nervous ear cupped for the sudden cry of "Poll!" (police) from a boy on watch, the avid customer would receive his prize - a crispy, crunchy sparrow fried whole in deep olive oil. In one gleeful gulp, the lucky Madrileno would swallow it, claws, beak...
...there was distress in the coffee houses. "I think we're in for trouble," snapped one Madrileno as he folded his morning paper. "Thank God my wife never reads the papers...