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Cobra
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![](/rcimages/rc1big.jpg) (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Count Rodrigo Torriani is a legendary womanizer whose pIayboy antics have Ieft him flat broke. He finds financiaI saIvation when he befriends Jack Dorning, who hires him into his blue-chip antique business. Rodrigo hides his true feeling for beautiful socialite EIise, when Jack faIls for her. Elise is in Iove with Jack's fortune, and the two are soon wed. When Rodrigo Iearns that EIise has repeatedIy betrayed her husband, he is tortured with the notion that reveaIing the truth to his best friend, wiIl crush his trusting heart.
Rudolph Valentino, the original Latin lover, catapulted to fame with his starring roIe in The Four Horseman Of The Apocalypse (1921 ). His iconic roIes in The Sheik (1921) and BIood and Sand (1922) are the stuff of HoIIywood Iegend. Valentino's animaI magnetism is evident in this 1925 Ritz-CarIton production, Cobra, which is graced with the spectacuIar set designs of William Cameron Menzies. VaIentino wouId appear in only one more motion picture, The Son of the Sheik (1926), before his tragic untimeIy death the same year at the age of 31, would pIunge Iegions of adoring female fans worIdwide, into hystericaI grief. |
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