Throughout the film there are manifest and latent excesses in the narrative, characterization, and visual style.
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Blood and Sand (1941): Mamoulian’s Oscar-Winning, Visually Striking Film, Starring Tyrone Power, Rita Hayworth, Linda Darnell
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Based on the novel by Vincente Blasco Ibanez, “Blood and Sand” is Mamoulian’s strikingly mounted story of the rise and fall of a young cocksure Spanish bullfighter, played by Tyrone Power, at his most handsome.
