Captain from Castile

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Captain from Castile ★★★ 1947

Exciting saga finds 16th-century Spanish nobleman Pedro De Vargas (Power) forced to flee the wrath of Inquisition chief De Silva (Sutton). He takes peasant girl Cantana (Peters), who's helped him, and joins Cortez's expedition to Mexico and the search for Aztec riches. Lots of adventures and old-fashioned pageantry. Peters' screen debut. 141m/C VHS, DVD . Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb, John Sutton, Antonio Moreno, Thomas Gomez, Alan Mowbray; D: Henry King; W: Lamar Trotti; C: Charles Clarke, Arthur E. Arling; M: Alfred Newman.

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