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...neither does the film, at least not in its original 3-hr., 11-min. version. As a boy, Dax Xenos (Loris Loddi) sees his mother raped by the Fascisti. He swears revenge and years later the adult Dax (Bekim Fehmiu) helps a Castro-style Latin American leader named Rojo (Alan Badel) to survive a bloody uprising. On the way to the palacio, Dax becomes an insatiable voluptuary. According to Robbins' five-peseta psychology, the poor niño is cursed with the inability to feel-with his heart. With everything else, yes. But with that overworked organ...
...Shalom Room of the Lee Hotel, which features its own synagogue. For the economy class, San Juan's hotel row has hatched two Red Rooster restaurants ("where corned beef and pastrami are king"); another, in staid Old San Juan, was discreetly latinized to El Gallo Rojo. This year there are Sunday bullfights in the Sixto Escobar Stadium-but no blood, as a concession to sensitive American tastes...
...Captain Manuel Rojo del Rio, an old fighting comrade of Castro who lately has borne the title of Cuba's paratroop commander, defected while on a visit to Costa Rica. Of Castro he said: "There is something in his eyes that frightens even the bravest man. They reflect madness." Rojo called Fidel's brother. Armed Forces Chief Raúl Castro, a "vindictive jelly bean" with a "resentment against the masculine type of man," and said that "all .his aides are Communists...
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...