Sunday, April 18, 2004
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- A copy of Rudolph Valentino's silent film "Beyond the Rocks" has been found in the Netherlands, becoming the only known existing print of the 1922 classic, the Amsterdam Film Museum said Saturday.
The film is "basically complete and basically undamaged," said Film Museum historian Jan van den Brink.
"Beyond the Rocks," directed by Sam Wood, was the only film in which Valentino starred opposite another silent era legend, Gloria Swanson.
Van den Brink said the film was found in the estate of a film collector from the city of Haarlem. The collection came into the museum's possession four years ago.
The 81-minute film is being restored and will be shown for the first time in 2005. The narrative text of the print is in Dutch.
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