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The Brave One (1956 film)

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The Brave One
DVD cover
Directed byIrving Rapper
Written byDalton Trumbo
Harry S. Franklin
Merrill G. White
Produced byFrank King
StarringMichel Ray
Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.
Elsa Cárdenas
Carlos Navarro
Joi Lansing
CinematographyJack Cardiff
Edited byMerrill G. White
Music byVictor Young
Release date
October 26, 1956 (1956-10-26)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Brave One is a 1956 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper and starring Michel Ray, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., and Elsa Cárdenas. It tells the story of a young Mexican boy who tries to save his beloved bull Gitano from the bullfighting arena.


The Brave One won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Story, and was nominated for Best Film Editing and Best Sound.

The writer was originally credited as Robert Rich, a pseudonym used by Dalton Trumbo. Trumbo, who was not presented with the Academy Award until 1975, was blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten in 1947 after he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

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