Don Julio Madariaga, affectionately called the centaur, spoke this word of wisdom.
The movie which presumably boosted Valentino's career or something definitely belongs to the silent trash. It seems uninspired and insipid in the extreme; it might have his fans but there are plenty of sick people nowadays. But it did some service, it brought me back on earth by reminding me that the silent masterpieces I used to digest are not the whole silent cinema. The silent garbage, as this Valentino flick proves, was as vile and unappealing as the later one.
FOUR HORSEMEN has one of the ugliest casts ever. Most of the performers are ridiculously ugly.
Rudy Valentino was perhaps a moderately goodlooking boy; the rest of the performers in the FOUR HORSEMEN's cast are extremely unappealing. The movie is clumsily made; I have forgotten how bad a silent movie can bethe Valentino vehicle reminded me. It might of meant something in Rudy's career; but it's ugly and mishandled. The caricaturing of the Germans is absolutely sickening.
I have seen mostly masterpieces of the silent; this one belongs to the garbage league; a piece of anti-militarist and antiGerman propaganda, insipid and uninspired.
The movie which presumably boosted Valentino's career or something definitely belongs to the silent trash. It seems uninspired and insipid in the extreme; it might have his fans but there are plenty of sick people nowadays. But it did some service, it brought me back on earth by reminding me that the silent masterpieces I used to digest are not the whole silent cinema. The silent garbage, as this Valentino flick proves, was as vile and unappealing as the later one.
FOUR HORSEMEN has one of the ugliest casts ever. Most of the performers are ridiculously ugly.
Rudy Valentino was perhaps a moderately goodlooking boy; the rest of the performers in the FOUR HORSEMEN's cast are extremely unappealing. The movie is clumsily made; I have forgotten how bad a silent movie can bethe Valentino vehicle reminded me. It might of meant something in Rudy's career; but it's ugly and mishandled. The caricaturing of the Germans is absolutely sickening.
I have seen mostly masterpieces of the silent; this one belongs to the garbage league; a piece of anti-militarist and antiGerman propaganda, insipid and uninspired.