The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse


Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, War
Release Year: 1921
Country: USA
Runtime: 134
Rating: 7.5 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Rex Ingram
Sound: Silent
Taglines:

  • All Hannah wanted was a roommate... instead she got a best friend.
  • This Holliday Weekend spend in the company of women


    • Writing by: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - (novel "Los Cuatros Jinetes del Apocalipsis")
    June Mathis - writer

    Produced by: Rex Ingram - producer

    Cast: Rudolph Valentino - Julio Desnoyers
    Alice Terry - Marguerite Laurier
    Pomeroy Cannon - Madariaga, the Centaur
    Josef Swickard - Marcelo Desnoyers
    Brinsley Shaw - Celendonio
    Alan Hale - Karl von Hartrott
    Bridgetta Clark - Dona Luisa
    Mabel Van Buren - Elena
    Nigel De Brulier - Tchernoff
    Bowditch M. Turner - Argensola
    John St. Polis - Etienne Laurier (as John Sainpolis)

    Music: Louis F. Gottschalk
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    Plot Outline: Madariaga is an Argentinian cattle baron with two daughters: one married a Frenchman, the other a German...
    Plot: Madariaga is an Argentinian cattle baron with two daughters: one married a Frenchman, the other a German. Madariaga favors his French grandson, Julio, as his heir, but Julio is a wastrel and rake whose greatest achivement is tangoing well. When Madariaga dies, his fortune is split between his daughters. The German side of the family goes back to Berlin, while the French half moves to Paris, where Julio becomes a painter and falls in love with Marguerite, a married woman. When WWI explodes (and is described by the mystic Tchernoff as the coming Apocalypse), and Marguerites husband is blinded, Julio decides he must join the army, and becomes a reformed character. But Death hasnt finished gathering his harvest yet and Julio must face his own cousin on the battlefield.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    The movie runs for a full half-hour before the credits roll.

    Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Incorrectly regarded as goofs: At one point, Townsend calls to his Chinese servant Sam; this was not, as some thought, a mistaken reference to an actors real name.

    Trivia: There are 7 entries in the trivia list - like these:

    • This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1995.
    • Rudolph Valentino signed onto the film for $350 a week, less than Wallace Beery earned for his small role as a German officer. Metro provided Valentino only with his Argentine gaucho costume and his French soldiers uniform. For the Parisian sequence, Valentino purchased more than twenty-five custom-fitted suits from a New York tailor, which he spent the next year paying for.
    • Prior to editing, the kiss at the end of the tango scene between Valentino and Dominguez took up seventy-five feet of film. The scene wasnt in the Ibanez novel, but was added by Rex Ingram to show off Valentinos dancing skills.



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