El Greco (1966 film)
{{Short description|1966 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = El Greco
| image = El-greco-movie-poster-1966-1020252501.jpg
| caption = Film poster
| director = Luciano Salce
| producer = Alfredo Bini
Mel Ferrer
| writer = Guy Elmes
Massimo Franciosa
Juan García Atienza
Luigi Magni
| starring = Mel Ferrer
| music = Ennio Morricone
| cinematography = Leonida Barboni
| editing = Nino Baragli
| studio = Arco Film
| distributor = 20th Century Fox
| released = {{film date|1966|5|7|Premiere|1966|8|15|Italy|df=yes}}
| runtime = 95 minutes
| country = Italy
| budget = $800,000"'Cabriola,' Vehicle for Ferrer, Marisol by A.H. Weiler". The New York Times. 6 December 1964: X13.
| language = Italian
}}
El Greco is a 1966 Italian drama film and biography of the painter El Greco directed by Luciano Salce and starring Mel Ferrer and Rosanna Schiaffino.{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/90348/El-Greco/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211142909/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/90348/El-Greco/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 December 2007 |title=El Greco (1966) |access-date=15 December 2011| first=Bosley |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author-link=Bosley Crowther |date=2007 | last=Crowther}}
Cast
- Mel Ferrer as El Greco (Domenico Teotocopulo)
- Rosanna Schiaffino as Jeronima de las Cuevas
- Adolfo Celi as Don Miguel de las Cuevas
- Mario Feliciani as Nino de Guevara
- Franco Giacobini as Francisco
- Renzo Giovampietro as Brother Felix
- Ángel Aranda as Don Luis
- Nino Crisman as Diego de Castillo
- Gabriella Giorgelli as Maria
- Giulio Donnini as Pignatelli
- Fernando Rey as Philip II
- Rafael Rivelles as Marquis of Villena
- John Karlsen as Prosecutor
- John Francis Lane as De Agueda
- Rossana Martini as Zaida
Production
It was Mel Ferrer's first film as producer. According to Ferrer, the film cost $800,000 which he felt was modest considering the film was in color and was the first movie allowed to shoot at Toledo Cathedral.
Release
The film had its world premiere on 7 May 1966 at the Museum of Santa Cruz in Toledo, Spain.{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|date=4 May 1966|page=118|title='El Greco' Preem Giant Affair|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1966-05-04_242_11/page/117/mode/1up?view=theater|access-date=6 January 2024|via=Internet Archive}}
Reception
According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $1,300,000 in rentals to break even and made $1,675,000, meaning it made a profit.{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv/page/325 325]|title=The Fox That Got Away: The Last Days of the Zanuck Dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox|url=https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv|url-access=registration|last=Silverman|first=Stephen M|year=1988|publisher=L. Stuart|isbn=9780818404856 }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0057026|title=El Greco}}
- (4 November 1966). [https://web.archive.org/web/20080222005925/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842995,00.html "Cinema: The Brush-Off"], Time. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
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Category:1960s biographical drama films
Category:Italian biographical drama films
Category:1960s Italian-language films
Category:Films directed by Luciano Salce
Category:Films scored by Ennio Morricone
Category:Biographical films about painters
Category:Cultural depictions of El Greco
Category:20th Century Fox films
Category:Cultural depictions of Philip II of Spain
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