The Legend That Was Valentino

The Silent Movie will mark the centennial of the birth of Rudolph Valentino, one of the most potent of film legends, with a screening tonight at 8 of “Camille” (1921) and of “The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse” (1921), which will be shown Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. with a glorious, restored print that reveals the full impact of the landmark film’s visual grandeur.

Alla Nazimova is over the top as Dumas fils ‘ tubercular heroine in the first film, which also fails to tap Valentino’s powerful sensuality and magnetism--but which has knockout proto-Art Deco sets by Valentino’s wife, Natacha Rambova.

The second film, Rex Ingram’s sprawling anti-war epic from Blasco Ibanez, made a star of Valentino in its first 10 minutes, when he danced his smoldering tango.

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