Valentino / United Artists Corporation ; 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.
Publisher:
Metro Goldwyn Mayer :
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips and Carol Kane. Based on the book: Valentino an intimate exposé of the Sheik by Brad Steiger and Chaw Mank Originally produced as a motion picture in 1977.
Summary:
The story, written by Russell and Mardik Martin, opens with 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.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)646902882
Locations:
ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.