The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Movie Review 1921

Silent classic and star maker for Valentino concerning an Argentine family torn apart by the outbreak of WWI. Valentino is a painter who moves from his native Argentina to France and is persuaded to enlist by a recruiter who invokes the image of the Biblical riders. His excellence as a soldier, however, proves to be his undoing. The 1962 remake can't hold a candle to original, adapted from a novel by Vicente Blasco-Ibanez.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 110 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Family Ties, World War I, Silent Films, Anti-War War Movies, Cousins

Screenplay

June Mathis

Cast

Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard, Alan Hale, Mabel van Buren, Nigel de Brulier, Bowditch Turner, Wallace Beery, Bridgetta Clark, Virginia Warwick, Stuart Holmes, John St. Polis, Mark Fenton, Derek Ghent

Cinematography

John Seitz

Director

Rex Ingram

Music

Louis F. Gottschalk

Producer

Metro

Awards

Natl. Film Reg. 1995.