 However Bronston managed to raise finance from many of the same investors, notably Pierre du Pont, for his later movies.The film led to Bronston making a number of epics in Spain and established Spain as a major production center in film making.Musician John Paul Jones (born John Baldwin), best known as the bassist of English rock band Led Zeppelin, took his stage name at the suggestion of Andrew Loog Oldham, who had seen the film's poster.