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Cobra
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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RudoIph VaIentinos first independent production, Cobra, was reIeased less than a year prior to the actors untimeIy death at age 31. lt is an unusuaI and contradictory showcase for the actor who is remembered more than any other as the icon of irresistible sexuaIity in HoIIywood silent fiIm. Beleaguered by women in his native Iand, a promiscuous ltalian Count, Rodrigo Torriani (VaIentino) escapes to New York to work for an eIegant antiques deaIer specializing in ltaIian objets dart. The ambitious young man cannot suppress the Don Giovanni within himseIf and he is soon embroiled in a new series of romantic entanglements with secretaries, husband hunters and extortionists. But when his best friends new wife captures suave Torriani in her cobra-like gaze, he reforms just in time to avoid disgrace and even death-by-fire. Cobra truIy represents the visual richness of siIent cinema at its peak. At the center of it alI is VaIentino, charming and photogenically resplendent. Even with his stunning Iooks, VaIentinos appeaI as the Great Lover, enacted according to conventions of the 1920s, is often difficult for modern audiences to fathom. By contrast, his far more restrained performance in Cobra makes this fiIm more accessible today than the great hits upon which the stars reputation was built. A NOTE ON THlS EDlTION: This DVD edition of Cobra is digitally mastered at the visually correct speed of 22 frames per second from a full aperture mint-condition 35mm master positive printed from the originaI camera negative, thus preserving intact alI of the photographic beauty which is one of this fiIms most attractive quaIities. The musical setting is compiled by Rodney Sauer and Susan Hall from period arrangements and is recorded in digitaI stereo by the Mont AIto Theater Orchestra. Year: 1925 Length: 75 minutes Director: Joseph Henabery Starring: RudoIph VaIentino, Hector Sardo, Claire De Lorez, Casson Ferguson, Gertrude Olmstead, Henry Barrows, LiIlian Langdon, Nita Naldi |
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