

For any viewer with a human heart, this tear-wrenching film will leave you joyfully weeping. True love for any animal has never had a more poignant test of love and courage. The film culminates with the boy's magnificent bravery before an arena filled with spectators. A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.

With Michel Ray, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Elsa Crdenas, Carlos Navarro. The boy visits everyone from the Patrone to the Governnor of Mexico in a vain attempt to alter the fate of his pet. The Brave One: Directed by Irving Rapper. Despite the frantic warnings of his parents that it's too late to save the animal, the small boy adroitly played by Michel Rey, sets off to save his courageous friend from certain death. Returning from a fool's errand, the boy discovers his best friend and lifetime companion has been sold for the purpose of bull fighting and its eventual destruction. Using subterfuge, the parents separate the two. By the time the animal has grown to market size and becomes a cash commodity, the boy's parents are torn between their son's love and their duty to the Patrone. Throughout the Calf's life the boy's love inexorably growing unaware of his parent's financial responsibility to the bull's true owner. Realizing the boy's loneliness, the parents encourage the bond, but fail to emphasis the eventual fate of the animal. This episode will examine the history of blacklisting in Hollywood, looking at the treatment of writers including Dalton Trumbo (Roman Holiday, The Brave. Naming the calf Gitano, The boy become it's friend and caretaker. Set in Mexico, a boy discovers a cow has been killed after delivering and orphaning a male offspring. The tale is of a small Mexican boy and his enduring love for his courageous pet bull. The Brave One was beautifully crafted in 1957 by blacklisted author Robert Rich and immediately established itself as a superb classic.
