Every man in the world wishes his name was Tyrone Power. Even if his name is actually Butch Deadlift, Brick Hardmeat, Punch Rockgroin, Flint Ironstag, Crud Bonemeal, Slab Squatthrust, Blast Hardcheese or Bolt Van Der Huge, he would rather be named Tyrone Power, even if the name comes with a certain inherent responsibility to not be a dweeb.
Power, the dashing stage actor and matinee idol who swashbuckled his way into America's hearts in The Mark of Zorro, plays another adventurous soul in Captain From Castile, from Oscar-nominated director Henry King. This time, he's Pedro De Vargas, a nobleman in 16th Century Spain who learns to his chagrin that nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. When Pedro frees a slave belonging to Diego De Silva (John Sutton), he pays a terrible price when he learns that Diego is an inquisitor. His family is imprisoned, he is branded a heretic and his little sister is tortured to death. Pedro refuses to stand for this, and he plots an escape that has him join forces with his friend Juan Garcia (12 Angry Men's Lee J. Cobb) and a beautiful and fiery peasant girl named Catana (Jean Peters). They sign on to join the crew of an explorer by the name of Hernando Cortez (Cesar Romero, whom you get to see out of that Zowie! Joker make-up and with a giant stalwart beard) who has plans to sail to the New World to conquer the Aztecs and take their wealth. But the shadow of Diego De Silva is not so easily eluded, especially when Pedro is wanted for his murder.
