Pre-production
Loren was paid $200,000 for ten weeks' work; producer Samuel Bronston also agreed to pay $200 a week for her hairdresser.
Ramón Menéndez Pidal, a Spanish authority on El Cid and Spain in the Middle Ages was the "historical adviser for the film and the "overall interpretation of the hero as presented by Charlton Heston."
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