Reel

Biography: Francisco Franco FRANCO (BAHAMONDE), FRANCISCO (1892-1975): Spanish general and dictator.

MS/CUs Francisco Franco saluting marching military from a perched podium, CU Franco

DO NOT USE Opening credits and Wallace's intro

MSs Franco saluting military procession (in some shots he wears a fuzzy hat); TLSs Fascist Spanish army marching in street; MSs Franco (a devout Catholic Christian) genuflecting in church.

Shots of women with baskets on their heads. Shots of Galicia, Spain

DO NOT USE Stills of Franco as a boy, then as a young man.

Spanish soldiers boarding a freighter bound for Morocco, and once there they march to crush the Moroccan army (shown here as sheiks on camels).

Excerpt from the silent Spanish film in which Franco played a bit role (the scene shown here is one of a smiling and genuinely pleasant Franco dining with members of the aristocracy).

MS/TLS KING ALFONSO XIII boarding a fancy horse-drawn carriage, departing the palace. Cut to excellent CU/MSs thin, emaciated Spanish poor eating in the streets.

An urban uprising among the classes, of people challenging the police, culminating in the government's downfall and the institution of the republic. MSs muckrakers giving soapbox speeches to the masses (the common man rallies around the cause); TLSs newly empowered left wing marching in the streets. Franco meeting with right wing officials.

The Spanish Civil War begins: CU ammo bay of howitzer field artillery gun being closed. MSs artillery being fired; LSs village being hammered; MSs disorganized loyalists in military training; TLSs Spanish Communists riding in trucks to the front. Soviet Union sends military assistance. MS/CUs foreign revolutionaries assembling. Soldiers march as Franco salutes from a balcony. Other Facists ttroops join Franco. Newsreel of the German Luftwaffe strafing a Spanish town, people running for shelter by going underground (subways). Ends w/ MSs villagers bringing out their dead, sifting through the rubble. Churches are burned. Victim in the street, his face has been covered with a blanket. MSs Fascist troops executing (execution) Loyalists via firing squad. Their death is uncut and uncensored here. MSs covered bodies. Many EXECUTIONS.

The Spanish Civil War coming to a head and then a close: MSs Fascists manning machine guns; MSs Loyalists firing paltry rifles from fences and trenches. Franco siting on a hill, conducting the war. Burning building. Franco smiling to camera, several officers walk behind him. Battles in urban and rural areas; ends w/ Loyalists marching in surrender with their hands in the air. MSs refugees leaving destroyed villages en masse (includes great CU of a father trying to warm his child's feet by a fire).

The celebration in the streets after the state's win. MSs Francisco Franco watching and waving, being awarded medals and sashes.

Franco parading through the streets of Spain. He waves to huge crowds. Franco arriving in Nazi Germany via train, where he is greeted by beaming German Chancellor ADOLF HITLER. MS Franco giving Nazi soldiers a Nazi salute. MSs Franco meeting w/ BENITO MUSSOLINI in Italy. Franco inspecting troops.

MS/TLSs Franco in Spanish congress, announcing the one party system. Then, same w/ religion as Franco celebrates outdoor mass with a cardinal. Franco inside a cathedral. Cardnial places a sash around his neck. MSs Franco at various publicity events promoting the state's wealth and industry. MS montage of "virtual serfs living in grinding poverty". MSs Franco w/ First Lady of Argentina EVA PERON. First standing together on a balcony, then attending a bullfight at which the matador gets smacked by the pierced and dying bull.

Franco watches modern fighter jets. U.S. President DWIGHT EISENHOWER (Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ike) visiting Francisco Franco, getting off Air Force plane and giving a speech from the tarmac (real audio). Franco meeting with Princess GRACE KELLY and PRINCE RAINIER of Monaco. MSs Franco playing w/ his grandkids, relaxing at home. MSs Franco and friends duck hunting; ends TLS of the men gloating over their kill, a courtyard filled with dead birds. Montage of the lavish pageantry Franco surrounded himself in. Parades, etc huge crowds gather at the events. Medieval reenactment. Aerial of the extravagant mountainside tomb he had constructed for himself.

DO NOT USE Still photo of INT shots of the vain mausoleum; tight LS of the towering cross atop it.

Officials come to pay honor to Franco. He stands on a stage as the men approach and bow to him.

DO NOT USE Wallace's closing comments, end credits.