Word: riffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that had he been sighting along the horizon instead of upward over his head, the explosion might well have caught him in the face. Less stoically, shaken aides hustled the protesting Generalissimo off to a Spanish air force hospital for his first in-patient treatment since 1916, when Riff rebels wounded him in the stomach in Spanish Morocco. At the hospital, Spain's top surgeons removed fragments of Franco's gun and shooting glove from his hand, saved his badly torn index finger. Three days later, despite continuing pain, the portly chief of state was back...
Miss Wood as Maria, Richard Beymer as Tony, and Tamblyn as Riff are all surprisingly good. But the star of the movie is Rita Moreno, as Anita. Her performance in the duet "I Have a Love" with Maria is all by itself worth the rather steep price of admission...