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Arruza

He Was Number One - THE BEST...And He Died That Way!

6.7

1h 13m

1972

“He Was Number One - THE BEST...And He Died That Way!”

Synopsis

Eight years in the making, Boetticher’s portrait of his longtime friend, the famous bullfighter Carlos Arruza, was a labor of love that the renowned director of westerns pursued despite contending with illnesses, bankruptcy, jail time, and lucrative offers from Hollywood. The result is an astonishing work of poetry, immediacy, and violence that fearlessly wrestles with the filmmaker’s own ambivalence about the titular matador’s triumphs prior to his death by automobile accident at the age of 46.

Director

Budd Boetticher

Documentary

bullfighting

Cast & Crew

Carlos Arruza

as Himself

Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn

as Narrator

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