Today is the anniversary of the death in 1926 of silent film star Rudolph Valentino. FilmReference.com says,
Rudolph Valentino contrived to be a legend in his lifetime and, thanks to the ministrations of his fans and a life that was both contradictory and confused, he continues as one of the few immediately recognizable giants of the silent screen more than 50 years after his death.
I have blog posts on the following of his films:
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
The Sheik (1921)
Blood and Sand (1922) below
His 1922 film Blood and Sand, in which Valentino plays a tragic bullfighter, is available here at Internet Archive in a "digest version," severely cut and with music and narration added. LikeTelevision has the entire film interrupted by commercials:
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For some reason, as a child, Valentino's film persona frightened me. Still gives me the shivers a bit.
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