The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 12 minutes
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: May 15, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1921
  • Label: Reel Vault

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User Ratings: 528
It is a production of many nuances, shadings so artistic and skillful as to intrigue the mind of the spectator. Full Review
Variety
Jul 6, 2010
Although it has a good deal of the wordiness, erratic tempo and illogical emphasis common to screen adaptations of printed stories, it is nevertheless distinguished from many other works of its kind by genuine cinematographic qualities. Full Review
New York Times
Jun 24, 2006
Rating: B -- Has not worn well with age. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jun 8, 2006
Rating: 2.5/4 -- It still has a few entertaining moments but it's mostly a real slog to get through. Full Review
Three Movie Buffs
Jun 24, 2006
Rating: 7/10 -- Rousing, heartbreaking, beautiful, ugly, and full of human activity, some of which sings with insight and emotion, some of which plods. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Mar 31, 2014

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The mystical novels of Vicente Blasco-Ibanez were much prized by ambitious silent filmmaker Rex Ingram, who filmed two of them in the 1920s, both ostensibly vehicles for his actress wife Alice Terry. The first of the two, FOUR HORSEMAN OF THE APOCALYPSE, was infinitely more successful than the second (MARE NOSTRUM), a fact that can be attributed to two little words: Rudolph Valentino. The quintessential Latin Lover stars as Julio, the scion of a wealthy Argentinian family. During the years prior to World War I, Julio's relatives relocate to Germany and France, with Julio opting for the latter country, where he opens an art studio. Here he carries on a torrid affair with Alice Terry, the wife of an attorney. When World War I breaks out, Terry joins the Red Cross and her husband enlists in the army, while the carefree Julio avoids involvement in the conflict. Only when visited by the spectres of the Four Horseman--war, conquest, famine, and death--does Julio don a uniform. His death is a symbolic sacrifice on behalf of Ms. Terry, whose husband has been blinded in the war: and, in an additional symbolic grace-note, Julio dies at the hands of his own cousin, now a German officer. The film's Big Money sequence was the one in which Rudolph Valentino danced the forbidden tango in a dingy, smoke-filled Argentinian cantina. That's what made him a star, not all that mumbo-jumbo about fate, destiny, and Four Horsemen. Proof that Valentino and not Blasco-Ibanez was the principal drawing card of this film was the 1962 remake, in which Glenn Ford portrays Julio.

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  • UPC: 644827355723
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