Word: mendoza
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...supporting cast includes a number of actors who deserve commendation, notably Michael Lewis as the irascible Roebuck Ramsden and Sorrell Booke as the arch-brigand Mendoza (also the Devil in the Don Juan scene). Cavada Humphrey turned in an adequate performance as the misunderstood Violet Robinson, as did Robert Brustein and Thomas Hill as her husband and father-in-law respectively. I particularly enjoyed John Wynne-Evans as Straker, Tanner's Cockney chauffeur...
Across the pampas, tractors towed combines out of the fields. Twenty million liters of wine mellowed in gigantic oak casks in western Mendoza. Off toward Cape Horn, coats thickened on 19 million sheep. In the subtropical north, the machetes of the cane cutters flashed...
...title refers to the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola, reputedly paved with gold, and the film begins as a Spanish expedition, led by Captain Gasper Portola (Anthony Quinn) and Lieut. José Mendoza (Richard Egan), forks horse and clatters away to find them. Friar Serra (Michael Rennie) goes along as chaplain of the band, hoping to found missions among the California Indians...
Drought, starvation, scurvy, typhus and sandstorms lash the little caravan, while behind the yuccas yuk some of the most unseemly aborigines ever calcimined. Before long the padre wins them over with beads and scissors and sweet charity, but Lieut. Mendoza quickly reconverts the tribe to barbarism. He seduces a pretty Indian girl (Rita Moreno...
...certain that they will not be disappointed in the program being arranged for them. The conference will open with a welcoming address by President Eisenhower, speaking over a closed television circuit from the White House. The keynote speeches will be given by Eugenio Mendoza of Venezuela and Harold McClellan, chairman of the board of the National Association of Manufacturers. Other speakers from the U.S. will be: Eric Johnston, chairman of the International Development Advisory Board; Harvey S. Firestone Jr.; Dr. Milton Eisenhower; Eugene Black, president of the World Bank; General Glen Edgerton, president of the Export-Import Bank; James...