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Captain from Castile: Directed by Henry King. With Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb. The invasion of Mexico by Cortez, as seen by a young Spanish officer fleeing the Inquisition.
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- 1948-01
Frederick of Castile. Frederick of Castile, in Spanish Fadrique (1223–1277), was a younger son ( infante) of King Ferdinand III of Castile by his first wife, Elisabeth of Hohenstaufen. He was born in Guadalajara . After the conquest of Seville, unhappy under the rule of his brother Alfonso, Frederick may have participated in the rebellion of ...
Captain from Castile is a 1947 American historical adventure film. It was released by 20th Century-Fox. Directed by Henry King, the Technicolor film stars Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, and Cesar Romero. Shot on location in Michoacán, Mexico, the film includes scenes of the Parícutin volcano, which was then erupting.
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Captain from Castile (1947) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most ...
Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/20/22 Full Review richard f I really loved this movie as melodramatic as it is. The only movie I can remember about the conquest of Mexico.
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- Henry King
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Some reviewers and commenters at the time of the movie's release noted that the bloodier aspects of the book had been muted (case in point: the slaughter of thousands of Aztecs changed into a single cannon shot that destroys a religious idol), but most still found much to commend Captain from Castile as a crowd-pleasing adventure. In 2002 ...
Trivia. Captain from Castile. In several of the scenes in Mexico, a large smoke cloud is seen on the horizon. At the end of the movie smoke is shown rising from a volcano. This is most likely a fortuitous eruption of the Paricutin volcano in 1947, when the movie was filmed, standing in for the eruption of Popocatepetl on Cortez's day.
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