The Young Rajah (1922)

Director:

Phil Rosen

Writers:

Alethea Luce (from the play: "Amos Judd" by), John Ames Mitchell (and the novel by),

Stars:

Rudolph Valentino, Charles Ogle, Fanny Midgley

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Rudolph Valentino	...	Amos Judd (as Rodolph Valentino)
Charles Ogle	...	Joshua Judd
Fanny Midgley	...	Sarah Judd
George Periolat	...	General Devi Das Gadi
George Field	...	Prince Rajanya Paikparra Munsingh
Bertram Grassby	...	Maharajah Ali Kahn
Josef Swickard	...	Narada - the Mystic
William Boyd	...	Stephen Van Kovert
Robert Ober	...	Horace Bennett
Jack Giddings	...	Austin Slade Jr.
Wanda Hawley	...	Molly Cabot
Edward Jobson	...	John Cabot
J. Farrell MacDonald	...	Amhad Beg - Prime Minister (as J. Farrell Macdonald)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

assassin | mystic | boat race | yale university | sanitarium | 

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Taglines:

HE WAS A PRINCE of India, she an American girl. The whole world stood between them-and-yet-

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Genres:

Romance | Drama

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Certificate:

Passed

Details

Country:

USA

Release Date:

12 November 1922 (USA)

Also Known As:

Der junge Maharadscha

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

54 min 54 min (2006 alternate)

Sound Mix:

Silent

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

An nitrate print of this film, once thought lost, has been discovered and restored. Approximately the first two-thirds is still lost and has been fleshed out with stills. The restored film had its American television debut on Turner Classic Movies on May 21, 2006.

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Crazy Credits

Except for Rudolph Valentino, whose name appears above the title, actors and their character names are credited only in the intertitles right before they appear on-screen and are listed in the same order in the IMDb cast. All other actors are marked uncredited.

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Connections

Referenced in Hollywood: Swanson and Valentino (1980)

User Reviews

Excellent, for what has survived

I caught this picture on TCM's Silent Sundays an May, 2006. The last forty minutes of a nitrate print were discovered and using stills and trailers, Paramount did a very commendable job giving the viewer the as much of the full experience as they could. Valentino gives an excellent performance and looks enough like an Indian in his turban to pass for their prince. The climax occur rather quickly but how the picture concludes is definitely on the clever side. But what is most interesting about this picture in the incorporation of prejudice and equality into the romance between Valentino's and Hawley's characters. Being only 18, prejudice and equality are different to me than they are to my parents, but I couldn't help but be amazed at how the film tackled the issue and rapped it up in an engrossing, almost epic motion picture experience.