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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.
Forced to flee his home during the Spanish Inquisition, nobleman Pedro De Vargas escapes with a beautiful peasant girl and joins Cortz on his dangerous expedition to conquer Mexico, as the young ...
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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- Adventure, Drama
- Henry King
- 1948-01
Many of the film's scenes were done on location in Mexico, where the company got fortuitous shots of an eruption of the newly formed Paracutin, standing in for the volcano Popocatapetl, which was active during Cortez's invasion.
Overview. Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico.
Jun 22, 2014 · A member of the aristocracy, Pedro de Vargas (Power), after assisting a runaway Aztec slave, Coatl (Jay Silverheels), comes up against Diego de Silva (John Sutton), a zealous nobleman ever watchful for heretics for the Spanish Inquisition.
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A gorgeous, top-drawer Twentieth Century Fox spectacular, Captain from Castile (1947) – adapted from Samuel Shellabarger’s best-selling novel – offers Tyrone Power as a Castilian caballero, first a victim of the Spanish Inquisition, then a member of the Mexican expedition of Hernán Cortez (Cesar Romero).
