Need help with the title of an old movie.

[The Backlash Cometh]

I'm hoping this movie aired in the U.S. I saw it overseas when I was young and it made an impression. It came to mind recently because my daughter was intrigued with the horror of bullfighting, which was a very intregal part of the movie. It could have been a Mexican or Spanish movie since that's where bullfighting is commonly practiced.

The short notes: A young peasant boy is allowed to raise a bull and it becomes his pet. The bull eventually matures and the father of the boy, needing money, sells the bull without the boy's permission. The boy can't accept that his pet is gone, so he runs away to the big city to find his bull -- and I believe he even manages to get clemency for the bull, but the clemency comes too late. He makes it to the bullfighting arena just as the bullfight begins and the boy watches as they dig the spikes into his full grown, pet bull. But before the matador can sink the final sword into the animal, the boy jumps into the arena and runs toward the bull.

Of course, everyone in the arena is in shock and you hear a collective gasp. But the boy walks steadfast to his pet. For a moment, you get the feeling that the animal is in too much pain to recognize him, but, it has a Hollywood ending and the boy wraps his arms around his pet's neck and walks him out of the arena. No one stops them.

Does anybody remember the movie? Is it available at the video stores?

[Wilber_Stool]

1. I believe Dalton Trumbo(sp) wrote it

but can't think of the title.

[Dookus]

2. Is it "The Brave One"?

http://www.dvdmoviecentral.com/ReviewsText/brave_one.htm

[Wilber_Stool]

3. Yeah, I just remembered.

I didn't like it much. Too mushie.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Wow! Great information!

I didn't know anything about the boy's accent problems because I heard it dubbed in Spanish, and everything fit as it should have. Remember, I saw it as a child, so the Disneyesque format hit its target audience. It was simple but a powerful story. And as far as the bull not having a personality to warm up to, well, just the fact that he didn't gore the boy was a sign of personal commitment. But I didn't catch on to the fact that the bull turned four without the boy ever showing any signs of physical growth. Bad nutrition, eh?

Anyway, thanks all for the help. I thought it was a better story than the one my daughter had to read in school which followed the life story of a young calf and how it grew into a bull just to die honorably in the bullring. WHAT! Talk about spin.

Here is a bit of information I found from your site that I thought other DUers might enjoy:

"One interesting bit of trivia: story writer Robert Rich, who won an Oscar for this film, never claimed his prize. That’s because Rich was a pseudonym used by legendary screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who had been blacklisted as a result of the McCarthy hearings. That blacklist remained unbroken until Kirk Douglas bravely credited him with his real name as the writer of Spartacus."