Valentino (1977)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Ken Russell

Writers:

Ken Russell (screenplay) and
Mardik Martin (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

7 September 1977 (France)

Genre:

Biography | Drama

Plot:

In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...

Plot Keywords:

Actor | Film Making | Lesbian | Erotica | Boxing Match

Awards:

Nominated for 3 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 1 nomination

Cast

Rudolf Nureyev	...	Rudolph Valentino
Leslie Caron	...	Alla Nazimova
Michelle Phillips	...	Natasha Rambova
Carol Kane	...	Starlet
Felicity Kendal	...	June Mathis
Seymour Cassel	...	George Ullman
Huntz Hall	...	Jesse Lasky
Alfred Marks	...	Richard Rowland
David de Keyser	...	Joseph Schenck
Linda Thorson	...	Billie Streeter
Leland Palmer	...	Marjorie Tain
Lindsay Kemp	...	Angus McBride
Peter Vaughan	...	Rory O'Neil
Anthony Dowell	...	Vaslav Nijinsky
Penelope Milford	...	Lorna Sinclair (as Penny Milford)

Also Known As:

Ken Russell's Valentino (Australia)

Runtime:

128 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

UK:18 | Ireland:18 | Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:X | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Spain

Company:

United Artists

Trivia:

This film is listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Moves Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Mardik: Baghdad to Hollywood (2008)

Soundtrack:

Dark Eyes

I just recently bought this movie and can't stop watching it

From start I knew this would be a great movie. I was very pleased with how the beginning was done. You're able to see newspaper articles telling you how Valentino died. Then you see real footage of people causing a riot as they try to break into where Valentino's body is. The footage is in black and white and then it turns to color. That was very well done too. How they were able to reenact the real footage. The song they also play in the beginning was a great song.

I thought the acting in this movie would be terrible, especially by Rudolf Nureyev. He turned out to be a very good actor in the movie. He was also very good in the dance scenes. I never found anything in this movie to displease me. However, there was one scene with Valentino and an actress from one of his movies he is working on that I thought was unnecessary. The scene comes right after one of the light technicians drops a pink powder puff on him. He has to sleep with the actress to prove he isn't a pink powder puff. Then later in the movie came a boxing scene were Rudolph Valentino wanted to prove his manhood. That was a very good scene. I think the point were I really started to like the movie was when Valentino was riding home with his dog. Who better then to do a biopic on Rudolph Valentino? This is a great movie with great acting, writing and direction.

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