Carlos Arruza

Boetticher's final release is an independently produced documentary about legendary bullfighter Carlos Arruza, narrated by Anthony Quinn. A labor of love, perhaps his most personal film - Boetticher himself had been a bullfighter before going into movies. Tragically, a car crash in 1966 took the lives of Arruza and some of Boetticher's filming crew. He only directed one other film, A Time for Dying (1969). Arruza was completed and released in 1972 to strong reviews but flopped in the theaters.

The life of the famed Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, from his boyhood through his training and the triumphs that followed as Procuna rose to the peak of his profession. (imdb)