Word: rojo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon the backslid heroine becomes a famous gypsy entertainer, travels through Europe from success to success and from sin (Gustavo Rojo) to sin (Dennis King). Crowd scene follows crowd scene: theaters, bullfights, battles. She finds her dragoon again at the side of the "Iron Duke" just before the Battle of Waterloo, which is thrown in for good measure. In the end, of course, she goes back to the convent, and at this point it becomes painfully apparent that the moviemakers intend, even at the risk of sacrilege, to have their unleavened bread and eat it too. But after more than...
Some of Madrid's changes were definitely for the worse. Offstage noises were technically poor; e.g., the departure of a jeep sounded more like the idling of a Flying Boxcar. Famed Mexican-born Actor Gustavo Rojo, as Lieut. Cable, was politely proper in his love scene with Liat (Maria Rey). And the lonely sailors were so surprisingly paired off with girls that the stage was cluttered with shapely dancers not quite sure of what they were there for. They were there because the censor ruled that a disproportionate number of men to women on stage smacked of homosexualism...
...cell 40, Seville Prison, the wisdom of Marx and Freud proved nothing against the presence of death and the pity for those who went nightly, crying "Madre"before the firing squads. Into the ear of a warden, Prisoner Koestler whispered"I am no longer a rojo." Henceforth he recognized that the text of reality had been written by no man, and that he would spend the rest of his life trying, in rare moments of grace, to decipher its invisible writing...