An Adventuress

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Title: An Adventuress
Year: 1920
Directors: Fred J. Balshofer
Writers: Fred J. Balshofer (writer) Thomas J. Geraghty (writer)
Actors: Julian Eltinge | Frederick Ko Vert | William Clifford | Leo White | Virginia Rappe | Rudolph Valentino | Stanton Heck | Charles Millsfield | Alma Francis | Lydia Knott | Frank Bond | Fontaine La Rue | Frank Gastrock | William Pearson | Frederick Heck
Languages: English
Color: Black and White
Country: USA
Genres: Drama
Trivia:
  • The original film featured the then unknown Rudolph Valentino. To cash in on his rise to stardom, it was re-edited to feature more of him. Various shots were repeated several times; long shots were blown up into close-ups and inter-cut with other footage; some scenes were projected on a loop, so that Rudolph Valentino repeated the same motions several times over; one scene was used as a flashback; and out-takes from the original were inserted into the new film. In addition, the locale of the new picture was switched from World War 1 Germany to a desert island by the simple expedient of inserting shots of bathing beauties on a palm-fringed beach throughout the film.
  • Originally shot in 1918, but re-edited, retitled and re-released in 1920 and again in 1922.
Comments:
1) This early Valentino film made in 1920, his fourth year in Hollywood, isone of six completed and released that year. Three of the six are among thelost. This film does exist in the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY asa 16 mm print. Valentino’s filmography for the years 1919/1920 issketchy -out of 13 films, 7 are lost.
Drama

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