The Legend of Valentino (VHS)

A "dramatization" of the life of actor Rudolph Valentino, widely regarded as the screen's first male sex symbol.

• Rated: Not Rated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Run Time: 72 minutes
• Format: Black & White
• Languages: English

His films changed Hollywood, his lifestyle shocked the world and his legend lives on.

Passionate. Controversial. There was no other lover like him.

Rudolph Valentino's on-screen image represented a new masculinity-hot-blooded, gentle, dominant. Off-screen, he was the subject of gossip and obsessive love. Valentino's sudden death at twenty-six stunned the nation, and for four days, an endless line of fans and curiosity seekers filed past the coffin. His funeral, broadcast around the world, become one of the first modern media events. Following his arrival in America as Rudolfo Guglielmi Valentino to his triumph in films like SON OF THE SHIEK and BLOOD AND SAND, the legend of Valentino lives on in this brilliantly written and edited portrait.

1983 City Entertainment Corp