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Valentino, United Artists ; a Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler production ; a Ken Russell film ; produced by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff ; directed by Ken Russell

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Valentino, United Artists ; a Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler production ; a Ken Russell film ; produced by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff ; directed by Ken Russell
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: R
Main title
Valentino
Oclc number
946342059
Responsibility statement
United Artists ; a Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler production ; a Ken Russell film ; produced by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff ; directed by Ken Russell
Runtime
128
Series statement
KL studio classics
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
Technique
live action
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