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Meanwhile, on the Manzanares River, outside of Madrid, Director-Producer Robert Rossen was busy shooting his multimillion-dollar spectacle, Alexander the Great, using an army of more than 5,000 extras. And M-G-M was waiting its turn to rent the 1,000 horses Rossen is using before starting its own extravaganza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boom in Spain | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...sudden boom? Cheap labor is part of the answer. Rossen, who plans to spend $4,000,000 on Alexander, another million on publicity, estimates that it would cost him twice as much in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boom in Spain | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...cinema producer had a story too. Robert (All the King's Men) Rossen testified that he was a member of the Communist Party from 1937 to 1947, and contributed no less than $40,000 to its causes. He recalled the names of 57 other Hollywood characters (most of them had been named before) whom he had known as Communists. In 1951, Rossen refused to tell the committee about his Communist past. Since then, he said, he had decided that he should speak out for "the security and safety of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Name Is Familiar | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Like the script, Actor Ferrer* never gets inside the character, and Mexico's Actress Miroslava, a blonde edition of Rita Hayworth, protrudes from the Mexican atmosphere like a stock Hollywood femme fatale. Aficionados can take some solace in Director Rossen's bullfighting scenes, well-staged within Production Code limits, and the movie's wealth of such local color as a bull-breeding ranch and a religious street pageant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Brave Bullfighters | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...Brave Bulls. He gets good support from Stack and Actresses Page and Katy Jurado, who seem more convincing as Mexican women than Miroslava. Directed by onetime matador Budd Boetticher and edited (without screen credit) by Producer Wayne's good friend, John Ford, the bullfighting sequences outdo Rossen's in stylized grace and violent excitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Brave Bullfighters | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

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