I really love this clip from Zorba the Greek. It is the final moments in the film following the enormous disaster that Zorba caused running logs from the monastery on top of the hill down to the sea. They took the clip on Stavros Bay in the Akrotiri peninsular.
Anthony Quinn is Zorba and Alan Bates is the English guy. So let’s see Zorba dance.
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