Beauty and the Bullfighter / Love in a Hot Climate
A Feature film of
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Production year1954
French release14/05/1954
Runtime1 h 39 min
Synopsis
After a fellow bullfighter is killed in the ring, Ricardo (Daniel Gélin), a dashing matador, decides it's time to retire. As a result, his fickle movie-actress mistress Marilena (Zsa Zsa Gabor) flounces out of his life. He is then targeted for persecution by journalist Riera (Arnoldo Foa). Still, Ricardo refuses to be coerced back into the ring. It takes the concerted efforts of the mercenary Marilena and Ricardo's equally greedy manager Naguera (Henri Filbert) to force Ricardo back into action. Tragedy inevitably ensues, though it is tragedy of the "grim irony" variety: Ricardo is not so much killed as he is loved to death by his fanatical fans.
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Credits
Actors (10)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Cité Films, Cocinor
- Foreign production company : Arcadia Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
- French distribution : Cocinor
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producers : Jacques Bar, Ignace Morgenstern
- Adaptation : Maurice Barry
- Dialogue Writer : Michel Audiard
- Director of Photography : Maurice Barry
- Music Composer : Raymond Legrand
- Assistant directors : Marcel Camus, Jacques Deray
- Editor : Christian Gaudin
- Sound Recordist : William-Robert Sivel
- Foreign Producer : Joaquin Reig
- Author of original work : Joseph Peyré
- Camera Operator : Jean Lallier
- Production Manager : Walter Rupp
- Continuity supervisor : Jacqueline Loir
- Production Designer : Robert Giordani
- Still Photographer : Robert Joffres
- Location Manager : André Guillet
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Romance
- Production language : French, Spanish
- Coproducer countries : Spain, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Spain, France)
- Production year : 1954
- French release : 14/05/1954
- Runtime : 1 h 39 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 13383
- Visa issue date : 12/03/1954
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
