‘El Cid’

This 1961 super spectacle about the man (Charlton Heston, pictured with Sophia Loren) who drove the Moors out of Spain is the kind of movie they don’t make anymore: a vast pageant, loaded with decor and furious action. Romance, swashbuckling jousts, sword fights and grand battle scenes--with 5,000 soldiers of the Spanish army acting as extras in the climax--combine for this historical extravaganza. Produced by Samuel Bronston, directed by Anthony Mann and written by Philip Yordan, Fredric M. Frank and the uncredited blacklist victim Ben Barzman, it paints a corrupt, obsessive Spanish court filled with cruel intrigue and perverse psychological (NBC Sunday at 7 p.m.).