What is The Bullfighter and the Lady / Blowing Wild about?

Name: The Bullfighter and the Lady / Blowing Wild
Genre: Action/Adventure,Drama

THE BULLFIGHTER AND THE LADY, 1951, Republic (Paramount), 124 min. The first of director Budd Boetticher’s great bullfighting films is the most personal, with autobiographical detail woven into the beautiful, doom-laden fictional story of a brash American (Robert Stack) entering the world of Mexican toreros; Gilbert Roland is Stack’s older mentor. BLOWING WILD, 1953, Republic (Paramount), 90 min. Dir. Hugo Fregonese. Shot on location in Mexico, this two-fisted saga finds broke wildcatter Gary Cooper hired by friend Anthony Quinn to work in his oil operation. But Quinn’s spouse (Barbara Stanwyck) is Cooper’s old flame. Reticent Cooper takes the job so he can get injured partner Ward Bond back to the USA, but Stanwyck, as well as marauding bandits, deliver escalating aggravation.

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What is The Bullfighter and the Lady / Blowing Wild about?: THE BULLFIGHTER AND THE LADY, 1951, Republic (Paramount), 124 min. The first of director Budd Boetticher’s great bullfighting films is the most personal, with autobiographical detail woven into the beautiful, doom-laden fictional story of a brash American (Robert Stack) entering the world of Mexican toreros; Gilbert Roland is Stack’s older mentor.

BLOWING WILD, 1953, Republic (Paramount), 90 min. Dir. Hugo Fregonese. Shot on location in Mexico, this two-fisted saga finds broke wildcatter Gary Cooper hired by friend Anthony Quinn to work in his oil operation. But Quinn’s spouse (Barbara Stanwyck) is Cooper’s old flame. Reticent Cooper takes the job so he can get injured partner Ward Bond back to the USA, but Stanwyck, as well as marauding bandits, deliver escalating aggravation.