Captain from Castile

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film historical adventure film

Captain from Castile is a 1947 historical adventure film set during the Spanish Inquisition and Hernán Cortés’s conquest of Mexico, starring Tyrone Power in one of his signature swashbuckling roles.

Aliases (1)

Captain from Castile (novel) ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	film → historical adventure film →
artDirectionAwardNomination	Academy Award for Best Art Direction – Color →
authorOfSourceWork	Samuel Shellabarger →
basedOn	Captain from Castile (novel) →
cinematographer	Arthur E. Arling NERFINISHED →
colorProcess	Technicolor →
composer	Alfred Newman →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
director	Henry King →
distributionFormat	35 mm film →
distributor	20th Century Fox →
distributorRegion	North America →
editor	Barbara McLean →
featuresEvent	Hernán Cortés’s conquest of Mexico →
filmingLocation	California → Mexico →
genre	adventure film → historical film →
hasFormat	theatrical feature film →
hasTheme	Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
leadActorRole	Tyrone Power as Pedro de Vargas →
mainCharacter	Pedro de Vargas →
musicAwardNomination	Academy Award for Best Original Score →
notableFor	one of Tyrone Power’s signature swashbuckling roles →
originalLanguage	English →
partOf	20th Century Fox swashbuckler films →
portrays	Hernán Cortés →
producer	Darryl F. Zanuck →
productionCompany	20th Century Fox →
releaseDate	1947-12-25 →
releaseYear	1947 →
runtimeMinutes	140 →
screenwriter	Lamar Trotti →
setInLocation	Mexico → Spain →
setInPeriod	Age of Discovery → Spanish Inquisition →
starring	Alan Mowbray → Antonio Moreno → Cesar Romero → Jean Peters → John Sutton → Lee J. Cobb → Thomas Gomez → Tyrone Power →
yearOfArtDirectionAwardNomination	1948 →
yearOfMusicAwardNomination	1948 →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Captain from Castile ("Captain from Castile (novel)") →	basedOn
Tyrone Power →	notableWork