Bolero (1984) on Netflix
An orphan heiress graduates from her British college resolved to find the ideal man for her first time. With her friend Catalina and chauffeur Cotton, she travels from Morocco to Spain.
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Plot summary
An orphan heiress to a fortune, educated at an exclusive British college, decides that her first sexual encounter should be with the right man, wherever he may be. She does not travel alone: her best friend Catalina and Cotton, the family chauffeur, come with her. In Morocco a sheik offers to be the one and flies her to a desert oasis, where he says he grew up with an English nanny and studied at Oxford. She moves on to Spain, where her attention turns to Angel Sacristan, a bullfighter, and she works to win him over. Catalina pursues the heiress's lawyer, Robert Stewart, and the two women take a young Gypsy girl, Paloma, under their wing.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bolero (1984)
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- Cannon Films co-head Menahem Golan pushed John and Bo Derek to make the sex scenes more explicit, over their objection that the scenes were strong enough already. Bo Derek screened the film for MGM chief Frank Yablans hoping he would rein Golan in, but Yablans disliked it as much as the rest of Cannon's output.
- When the producers would not cut the film to escape an X rating, MGM dropped it on standards grounds and Cannon released it itself, unrated, with ads promising no one under 17 would be admitted. Yablans then used a breach of contract clause to terminate MGM's distribution deal with Cannon in November 1984.
- For all the trouble it caused, the film took $4.6 million over its opening four-day weekend, a record for a film opening over Labor Day. It still only finished third, unable to shift Clint Eastwood's Tightrope from the top of the chart.
