Movies: Rudolph Valentino

  • 1921
    The Sheik

    The Sheik (1921)

    The Sheik

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    Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed t...

    The Sheik
  • 1922
    Blood and Sand

    Blood and Sand (1922)

    Blood and Sand

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    Juan is the son of a poor widow in Seville. Against his mother's wishes he pursues a career as toreador. He rapidly gains national prominence, and takes his childhood sweetheart Carmen as his bride. He meets the Marquis' daughter Doña Sol and finds h...

    Blood and Sand
  • 1990
    Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

    Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990)

    Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

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    Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Hollywood of tragic lives and tragic deaths. Some of the worlds brightest stars are hiding deep, dark secrets that - once revealed show a life of unhappin...

    Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
  • 1925
    The Eagle

    The Eagle (1925)

    The Eagle

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    Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the...

    The Eagle
  • 1921
    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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    Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the...

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  • 1926
    The Son of the Sheik

    The Son of the Sheik (1926)

    The Son of the Sheik

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    Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl who fronts her father's gang of mountebanks. She and Ahmed meet secretly until one night when her father and the gang capture the son of the sheik, torture him,...

    The Son of the Sheik
  • 1946
    Blue Skies

    Blue Skies (1946)

    Blue Skies

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    Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long....

    Blue Skies
  • 1921
    Camille

    Camille (1921)

    Camille

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    Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when po...

    Camille
  • 1950
    The Golden Twenties

    The Golden Twenties (1950)

    The Golden Twenties

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    Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures....

    The Golden Twenties
  • 1942
    Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

    Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)

    Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

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    The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Wal...

    Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
  • 1920
    The Isle of Love

    The Isle of Love (1920)

    The Isle of Love

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    The original film featured the then unknown Rudolph Valentino. To cash in on his rise to stardom, it was re-edited to feature more of him. Various shots were repeated several times; long shots were blown up into close-ups and inter-cut with other foo...

    The Isle of Love
  • 1927
    Character Studies

    Character Studies (1927)

    Character Studies

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    Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applying makeup and changing the combing of his hair or putting on a wig. When he tilts his head down during each supposed makeover, up pops the actual celeb...

    Character Studies
  • 1922
    Beyond the Rocks

    Beyond the Rocks (1922)

    Beyond the Rocks

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    A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon....

    Beyond the Rocks
  • 1921
    The Conquering Power

    The Conquering Power (1921)

    The Conquering Power

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    Young playboy Charles Grandet is sent to live with his miserly uncle after his father loses his fortune. He and his cousin Eugenie fall in love, but his uncle sends him away and tries to arrange a marriage more to his liking (and profit!). Will true ...

    The Conquering Power
  • 1919
    Eyes of Youth

    Eyes of Youth (1919)

    Eyes of Youth

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    A young woman, confronted by four options for proceeding in her life, is granted the ability to see what results would come from her choice of of the options. After she sees her future along three of the roads, she makes her choice....

    Eyes of Youth
  • 2007
    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

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    Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and reminiscences by stars of the era. G...

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
  • 1922
    Moran of the Lady Letty

    Moran of the Lady Letty (1922)

    Moran of the Lady Letty

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    Wealthy young man Ramon Laredo is abducted and put into service aboard a ship commanded by a none-too-scrupulous smuggler. When the ship encounters the foundering "Lady Letty," some of the Letty's crew is brought aboard, including Letty 'Moran' Stern...

    Moran of the Lady Letty
  • 1925
    Cobra

    Cobra (1925)

    Cobra

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    Rodrigo, an impoverished Italian nobleman takes a job with a New York antique dealer he met overseas. Swearing off women, Rodrigo focuses on his job. But complications arise when he falls in love with his friend's secretary-- and his friend's wife lo...

    Cobra
  • 1917
    Patria

    Patria (1917)

    Patria

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    Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves with Mexicans across the border. They are stopped by the efforts of munitions factory heiress Patria C...

    Patria
  • 1986
    Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

    Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986)

    Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

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    Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars...

    Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend