Valentino Movie Review 1977

Another one of director Russell's flamboyantly excessive screen biographies, this time of silent screen idol Rudolph Valentino (Nureyev). The details hardly matter but the movie is told in flashback from Valentino's funeral to his beginnings as a dance instructor and his eventual success as a screen lover. Nureyev is noticeably stiff in his screen debut but at least he possesses some charisma.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 127 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Biopics: Showbiz, Period Piece: 1920s, Flashback

Screenplay

Mardik Martin, Ken Russell, John Byrum

Cast

Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, Carol Kane, Felicity Kendal, Seymour Cassel, Peter Vaughan, William Hootkins, Huntz Hall, David de Keyser, Alfred Marks, Anton Diffring

Cinematography

Peter Suschitzsky

Director

Ken Russell

Music

Ferde Grofe

Producer

Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff, United Artists