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GoldLyrics.com - Valentino (1977)
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $28.59
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: MGM/UA Home Video
Starring: June Bolton, Leslie Caron, Seymour Cassel, Anton Diffring, Don Fellows
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302995886
Format: Color
ISBN: 6302995884
Label: MGM/UA Home Video
Manufacturer: MGM/UA Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Running Time: 128
Studio: MGM/UA Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1977
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Like Sextette....
Comment: it may be a 5 or just a 1.... it all depends on your taste, humour and love of movie nostalgia....
They(the cast) all give camp performances, but the "storyboard" sitting between Leslie, Michelle og Rudolf and "the wedding" of Leslie and Michelle at his funeral are definate highlights....
The dance bewteen Valentino and Nijinski is never to be forgotten... But....
Nereyevs diction leaves something to be desired... True, he may be the only 1 i the era who could play Valentino(today - Johnny Depp) - but is is of another tradition... Still - I have to admit he fills Rudy`s shoes well.
Leslie Caron is a great Nazimova... The set designs and costumes are all well made in 20s style...
It is a cross between good drama and good camp:-)))
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Summary: Rudolph Valentino was the sheik of love.
Comment: ADULTS ONLY! This 1977 film contains male frontal nudity and female frontal nudity.
Rudolph Valentino (Rudolpho D'Antonguolla) was Italian-born on May 6, 1895. At the age of 22, he did his first silent film as a dancer in "Alimony". (A silent film is what they made 100 years ago. They were short films in black & white before sound, adding a talking track, and technicolor was invented).
Valentino was an incredibly handsome man and the women thought he was the most beautiful of any man they have seen on the movie screen. Women wanted him, but Valentino also had a tryst or two with men as well. Even Clark gable had an encounter with a man to get a movie role at one time.
In 1918, Valentino got the lead in "The Married Virgin" and later came "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921). He was given the nickname, "The Sheik" when his role in the films, The Shiek (1921) and Blood and Sand (1922) made him more popular.
Rudolph Valentino did 37 films, his last was Son of the Sheik (1926).
On August 23, 1926, Valentino dided at the age of 31 from a post surgical infection, endocarditis septicemia. He has a perforated ulcer. Every year afterwards on the day of his death, a mystery woman in black, with a black veil over her face, would visit the Valentino grave and place a single red rose upon it. From 1927-1953, Ditra Flame was the "mystery woman" (we would find this out years later). Flame's mother was a friend of Valentino. Copycats of the "Lady in Black" began to show up and that is why Ms. Flame stopped visting the grave.
Offficially, actress Estrellita del Regil became the second "Lady in Black".
Vicki Callahan accepted the mantle as a "Lady in Black" in 1995.
This 1977 film about Rudolph Valentino got the attention of moviegoers with a very provocative movie poster of Rudolph Nureyeu and Michelle Phillips totally nude.
Rudolph Nureyeu was a famous ballet dancer and was chosen to portray Rudolph Valentino.
Also in the cast: Leslie Caron, Carol Kane, Felicity Kendal, Seymour Cassel, Peter Vaughn, Huntz Hall and John ratzenberger.
After Rudolph Valentino died, American women focused their attention on John Gilbert, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power and William Powell.
Another film was made about Rudolph valentino also titled, "Valentino" (1951).
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Summary: Golden Turkey Award Nominee Par Excellance-:-(
Comment: Caught this lamentable, execrable, piece on TV last night-and I
can see why it BOMBED bigtime in theatrical release-1. continu-
ity stank, 2. None of the scenes made any sense-like they were
thrown together a la an amateur movie, 3. acting was at an equally dismal level, 4. Gratuitous nude scenes-ho-hum, another
bum....5.written like a tax-writeoff movie, 6.a Ken Russell oer-
vre-why this psychedelic pinheaded amateur was ever given a cam-
era or a director's job is beyond me, 7. It just plain did not
offer any biographical info, just silly scenes......in short,
save your money, and DO NOT buy this piece of crap-rent it if you absolutely MUST see it.Positively one of the three WORST movies ever made-it reeks!!!!!
P.U. Bleagh!!!!!!
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Summary: TANGOS, TRIOS, TRAVESTIES........
Comment: The is the one where Princess Margaret saw "Rudi Nudi" - for some or other reason it was selected as a Royal Performance!Not really one of Ken's best, it's stil kinda worth seeing, if you get my drift! A fractured vision of Hollywood, circa "when it all began and when we had faces", i.e. the Silent Years, and granted Valentino was probably the first real male movie star, although today - it IS rather difficult to understand the attraction - was it the eyes? The close-up? [The other pre-Valentino male stars? Check out the make-up!] BUT, back to this movie - it's a sad re-telling of Valentino's short life, emphasizing the menage [?] between Valentino, his ex-ballet-dancing wife, now Art director Natasha Rambova/Michelle Phillips [relax, she was a local gal, an heiress, not an import, eventually banned from the Paramount lot] and the now oddly neglected, but spectacular Alla Nazimova [Leslie Caron as a lesbian? Check out the dialogue between Caron and the newly widowed Mrs. Valentino - right over the casket! Mortice is not even rigor and the two are planning a new life! Intentionally funny??? Well, Nazimlova was bisexual, and a damn good business woman too - another Hollywood casualty. She was also Tennessee Williams Muse.] The movie does go on and on - Nureyev is too exotic, but provides the necessary eye-candy. There are hints of Valentino's bisexuality - the "Pink Powerpuff" sequences, but we don't learn much about the man. Carol Kane shines as another vapid vamp. There's even boy-boy dancing - Valentino/Nijinsky episode in New York, pre-Hollywood. Valentine worked as a dance "escort" ["Roseland?"]. The tango sequences are good, but this Ken Russell is not too memorable - good as part of your Ken Russell collection it does not quite hold its own. Costumes and art direction ARE rather superior! Better by faris the TV version with Franco Nero and Yvette Mimeiux - much stronger casting!
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Summary: Deserves to be watched and bought for you home collection
Comment: I am not gonna talk about "Valentino"'s cinematic merits or Ken Russell's ones, for that matter. Previous reviewer has done a pretty good job on that. I'll just say that I own this movie and I watch it every so often. I enjoy it, because it is full of satirical images and it DOES take me back to the Hollywood of 20's. Of course, people should not consider it a real biographical movie about RV, but rather a huge satire with terrific costumes and wonderful cast. I must say that the film looses its edge half away thru; in the beginning you are taken by it, then it becomes more of a toy for Ken Russell himself. As for Nureyev's playing Valentino, I think that was THE INGENIOUS PART OF RUSSELL'S PLAN. Yes, it was Nureyev's first role in cinema (first and the only one, buy the way). Yes, he seems stiff at times, but I believe this was part of the idea: to "ham" it up a little in order to heighten the effects of constructed set (Hollywood of 20's). Anyone who saw Nureyev on stage/in ballet/ should have no doubts about his actor skills; he did not simply dance, he ACTED. Besides, for anyone who saw movies with Rudolpho Valentino (well, I did), com'on, how much "ham" is that, especially from today's perspective?.. NOW, think about it, Valentino and Nureyev: they had the same name, they were both dancers, they were both immigrants (suffering from not ever seeing their mothers again), they were both gay, they were both surepstars, etc. I think the similarities are uncanny! Russell took full advantage of them, by constucting a surrealistic plot, where you are not always sure whether you are watching Nureyev as Valentino, Nureyev as Nureyev, or even Valentino as Nureyev. That is possibly why Nureyev would want to play this role, even though he had not done any films before. ONE SCENE ESPECIALLY PROVES MY POINT ON THIS: right in the beginning we see young Valentino, who lived in NY then, is supposedly giving tango lessons to the great Nijinsky, who was also in NY at the same time with his troop ("Russian Seasons Ballet"). No such encounter ever happened in the real life, I am sure (Valentino was young and handsome small time jiggalo...Nijinksy's each move was monitored by Sergey Diagilev, troop's director and Nijinsky's pathologically jealous lover... Diagilev would have never allowed Nijinsky to see a handsome/ gay/Italian for private lessons or any such thing). So, how fanastic was it of Russell, to put two of the 20 century's greatest ballet dancers together in a marvellous tango? I just loved it: the idea itself and the scene! Anyway, if you watch this movie, you'll see it for yourselves. This movie is well-worth watching repeatedly.
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