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The Angel Wore Red (1960)
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14 April 1960 (Italy) moreTagline:
A FUGITIVE...With a Price On His Head! A WOMAN...With a Price On Her Love! morePlot:
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Politically Daring moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Ava Gardner | ... | Soledad |
 | Dirk Bogarde | ... | Arturo Carrera |
 | Joseph Cotten | ... | Hawthorne |
| Vittorio De Sica | ... | Gen. Clave |
| Aldo Fabrizi | ... | Canon Rota |
| Arnoldo Foà | ... | Insurgent major |
| Finlay Currie | ... | Bishop |
| Rosanna Rory | ... | Mercedes (as Rossana Rory) |
| Enrico Maria Salerno | ... | Capt. Botargus |
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This film has an abiding place in my film canon, for one very good reason.
It isn't a great film, as both the other IMDb reviewers have gone out of their way to stress (although some of their criticisms were a little unfair. I thought, for example, that Joseph Cotten fared better than they say). However, it is virtually the only entertainment vehicle I have ever seen - including film, TV, radio, newspaper, magazine - that dares to show the truth about the left-wing Republicans/anti-Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.
The Spanish Republicans have been lionised for decades for their allegedly heroic struggle against fascism (although it is actually a moot point to what extent Franco's Nationalists were fascist). However, this film is brave enough to show the truth - that the Spanish Republicans singled out religious targets and many harmless middle class targets and killed or persecuted them. It also dares to show the truth that the Republicans ran the areas they controlled along Stalinist lines. Which is not surprising, given the links with Communists and Stalinist Russia that some of them had.
The file deserves enormous credit for showing this, and it is a shame that no-one has pointed this out on IMDb - until now.