BLOOD AND SAND

Following his triumph in The Sheik. Valentino was relegated to a series of cheap roles with heavy sexual overtones to perpetuate his "hot Latin" Image. He had intended Blood and Sand to be the role that would breakthrough those stereotypes or at least lead to more serious role and signed on for a big-budget, epic production. Following a series of lawsuits and recriminations the film was finally made on Paramount's backlot with actual bullfighting footage intercut with staged arena sequences. The story is that of a poor boy's struggles to become one of Spain's greatest bullfighters.

Directed by Fred Niblo. Cast; Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee & Nita Naldi.

1922 90m Silent film with added music score.
ISBN 1-55881-313-6
$19.95

THE EAGLE

The Next-to-last Film by Rudy Valentino. He is a lieutenant in the Army of the Czarina. After the aging monarch propositions him and he rejects her he deserts his military position and returns to his village. There, the injustices brought about by the royal Family and their henchmen move him to action; he becomes a "robin hood" type character. Great adventure romance.

1925 74m Silent Film with original, re-release film score.
ISDN 1-55801-312-8
$19.95