Valentino

The Resource Valentino
Label
Valentino
Statement of responsibility
United Artists ; a Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler production ; a Ken Russell film ; screenplay by Ken Russell and Mardik Martin ; produced by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff ; directed by Ken Russell
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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
Cataloging source
STF
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, Peter Suschitzky; editor, Stuart Baird; original music, Stanley Black, Ferde Grofe
Dewey number
791.43/72
Intended audience
MPAA rating: R
LC call number
PN1997
LC item number
.V35 2010
PerformerNote
Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips and Carol Kane
Runtime
127
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
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