Enter Orson Welles (1915-1985) as Cesare Borgia and Tyrone Power (1914-1958) as his agent. These are two legendary figures in the American movie tradition and this movie is a worthy piece of art on many levels (for example it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design). The movie deals with the political-military life of pre-modern Italy and the designs and covert operations of a playful and deadly notorious warlord (Borgia). Tyrone Power plays a capable and ambitious covert operator [the mob called them button men, because they press your buttons], who is dispatched on a mission that tests the content of his character and eventually sends him on the path of the ba'al teshuvah. This scene comes early on in the movie and sets the stage for the story.
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