Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spain today, all the world's a sound stage. The Outlaw of the Red River, with George Montgomery, is now shooting on the banks of the Tagus River. Yacht to Jamaica never left Barcelona. Nor did Horst Buchholz as The Man from Istanbul. Orson Welles's epic of Falstaff, Chimes at Midnight, is packing up in Madrid, but Henry Fonda is just digging in around Segovia for The Battle of the Bulge. And in suburban Madrid, it looks as if Franco lost the Civil War after all: there, in a set ankle-deep in marble-dust snow...
Pumping Out Orson. All this action could be just another reason why Douglas Dillon wants out at the Treasury. The hegira from Hollywood and the hegemony of Spain seem inescapable. Spain's low living costs are equaled nowhere in Europe except Greece and Yugoslavia, and its range of scenery and climate are matched nowhere at all. Orson Welles, making do with a fish-and-flour warehouse as studio, paid rent of a mere $120 a month. And he didn't have to fabricate a medieval cobbled-street market, a walled village, or a 12th century Romanesque castle...
...Spain's other touted economy is that if the director doesn't like the weather, all he has to do is drive a little. Thus David Lean of Zhivago, who had traveled 30,000 miles to find a snowy steppeland for his winter scenes, was assured he need go no further than Soria in the Spanish Pyrenees. "Just like Russia," promised the mayor, counting up the take for the local economy. M-G-M was convinced, built a whole Russian village, a rail line and a river-diverting dam. Only the snows never came, and when Lean went...
...case of Spain's most lucrative foreign producer, Samuel Bronston, the government has gone even farther. Once so overextended that he couldn't pay his tab at Madrid's Castellana Hilton, Bronston has been bailed out with an official two-year moratorium on his debts, plus a fat crude-oil import license. Of course, Bronston has of late been cranking out some patriotic Spanish shorts as a sort...
During the 49 days spent in 18 ports of call, the students went on field trips. Dena Lambie, 22, of Menlo Park, Calif., is rapturous over discovering the Orient and swimming with new-found Egyptian friends in the Nile. "I skied in Japan, saw the bullfights in Spain, and went Honda riding in Greece," recalls Janice Cope, 22, of Fresno, Calif. Manila offered the students a cockfight, Ceylon a performance by the Kandyan dancers. The semester trip, plus 17 course credits, cost $2,500 to $3,000, depending on accommodations...