Valentino /
The story opens with the super-star actor Rudolph Valentino in his coffin, dead at the age of thirty-one. As one by one the women in his life come to pay homage to "The Sheik," Valentino's rise from tea dance gigolo to screen idol unfolds in a series of extravagant flashbacks - highli...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
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[Calif.] :
Metro Goldwyn Mayer : Twentieth Century Home Entertainment,
[2010]
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| Summary: | The story opens with the super-star actor Rudolph Valentino in his coffin, dead at the age of thirty-one. As one by one the women in his life come to pay homage to "The Sheik," Valentino's rise from tea dance gigolo to screen idol unfolds in a series of extravagant flashbacks - highlighted by beautifully rendered sepia-toned recreations of his silent films. Freely mixing fact and fiction, director Russell, a man of ideas as well as baroque images, uses Valentino's life to comment on the destrucitve nature of the early Hollywood system and American code of machismo. |
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| Item Description: | Based on the book: Valentino: an intimate exposé of the Sheik / Brad Steiger and Chaw Mank. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1977. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (approximately 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD-R; region 1; NTSC; widescreen; Dolby Digital 2.0. |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: R. |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Peter Suschitzky; editor, Stuart Baird; original music, Stanley Black, Ferde Grofe. |