Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (film)
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| Directed by | Vincente Minnelli |
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Julian Blaustein associate Olallo Rubio Jr. |
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John Gay Robert Ardrey |
| Starring |
Glenn Ford Paul Henreid Ingrid Thulin Charles Boyer Lee J. Cobb |
| Music by | André Previn |
| Cinematography | Milton R. Krasner |
| Edited by | Ben Lewis Adrienne Fazan |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) |
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153 minutes |
| Country | United States Mexico |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7,174,000 |
| Box office | $4,100,000 |
The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a 1962 American-Mexican drama film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Lukas, Yvette Mimieux, Karl Boehm and Paul Henreid. It is loosely based on the novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, which had been filmed in 1921 with Rudolph Valentino. Unlike that film, this was a critical and commercial disaster, which contributed greatly to the financial problems of MGM.
In 1936, Madariaga is an 80-year-old patriarch of a large Argentinian cattle ranch. He has two grandsons - Julio, son of the French son-in-law Marcelo, and Heinrich, son of the German Karl. Heinrich returns home from studying in Germany to reveal he has become a Nazi. Madariaga slaps Heinrich and predicts that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Conquest, War, Pestilence, and Death) will soon devastate the earth; he runs outside into a storm with visions of the four horsemen and then dies in Julio's arms.
In 1938 Julio goes to Paris with his family and befriends Marcelo's anti-Nazi friend Etienne Laurier. Julio falls in love with Laurier's wife, Marguerite, and becomes her lover after war breaks out and Laurier is sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. He takes advantage of his status as a neutral to live a pleasant life with Marguerite in German-occupied Paris where his cousin Heinrich is an important official in the SS.
When Marguerite becomes the object of German General von Kleig's lust, Julio defies him and incurs von Kleig's personal enmity. Julio's younger sister Chi Chi becomes active in the French resistance, troubling Julio about his own lack of character. Laurier is released from prison an apparently broken man and Marguerite leaves Julio to care for him. When Julio discovers that Laurier is an important figure in the resistance, he joins it as well.
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