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Director
  
Javier Seto

Music director
  
Jose Buenagu

Country
  
Spain

5/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
1963 (1963)

Based on
  
Poema de Fernan Gonzalez

Writer
  
Anonymous (poem), Paulino Rodrigo (story), Luis de los Arcos (story), Javier Seto (story), Paulino Rodrigo (screenplay), Luis de los Arcos (screenplay), Javier Seto (screenplay), Paulino Rodrigo (dialogue), Luis de los Arcos (dialogue), Javier Seto (dialogue), Sidney W. Pink (English script and dialogue)

Screenplay
  
Javier Seto, Paulino Rodrigo, Luis de los Arcos

Cast
  
Espartaco Santoni
(Fernán González),
Frankie Avalon
(Jerifán),
Cesar Romero
(Jerónimo),
Tere Velázquez
(Sancha),
Tomás Blanco
(Don Nuño),
Germán Cobos
(Abderramán)

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,
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,
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,
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,
Orson Welles in Spain
,
Vantage Point

Tagline
  
TRUE...Actually Shot in the Medieval Locations Where the Actual Story Took Place!

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The Castilian (Spanish: El Valle de las espadas) is a 1963 film about Fernán González of Castile, the first independent Count of Castile, who lived and reigned in the early 10th century, and is considered an important figure in the Spanish Reconquista.

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This film was directed by Javier Setó. Filmed in Spain; exteriors filmed in Burgos and Peñafiel (Valladolid).

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Plot summary

Don Sancho (Broderick Crawford) is a despotic 10th century castilian king who, in cahoots with the invading Moors, has banished handsome Castilian nobleman Fernán González (Espartaco Santoni). With the surreptitious aid of Don Sancho's daughter, Sancha (Tere Velázquez), Fernán González assembles an army to march against the Moors.

Cast

  • Cesar Romero, as Jerónimo
  • Frankie Avalon, as Jerifán
  • Broderick Crawford, as Don Sancho
  • Alida Valli, as Reina Teresa
  • Espartaco Santoni, as Fernán González
  • Tere Velázquez, as Sancha
  • Fernando Rey, as Ramiro II of León
  • Soledad Miranda, as Maria Estevez

    • Production

    The film was known as The Valley of the Swords. Linda Darnell was supposed to be in the film but had to bow out and was replaced by Alida Valli.

    Comic book adaption

  • Dell Movie Classic: The Castilian (January 1964)

    • References

    The Castilian Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Castilian IMDb The Castilian themoviedb.org


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