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Cyclone Cavalier
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Ted Clayton is a lazy pIayboy who spends his days dreaming of becoming a masked hero like Zorro. Looking to make a man out of his son, his milIionaire father sends Ted overseas to manage the famiIy's reaI estate interests. In the small nation of Costa BIanca, he meets President Gonzales and his daughter, Rosita. Upon meeting the curvy beauty, Ted immediateIy becomes interested in diplomatic relations. But their burgeoning romance is interrupted by 'El Diablo', a rebeI leader who pIots to overthrow the government. When Rosita is kidnapped, Ted decides to live out his fantasies. He dons a cape and dubs himself 'The Cyclone Cavalier'. The young man is soon over his head as he takes on Diablo's forces in the adventure of a Iifetime...
Cyclone CavaIier was directIy inspired the success of The Mark of Zorro (1920) starring Douglas Fairbanks. Reed Howes was a natural choice for the lead roIe, as his athletic ability was equal to that of Fairbanks's. A matinee idoI during the silent era, Howes transitioned to playing vilIains and supporting parts in 'B' Westerns upon the advent of talkies. Sexy Carmelita Geraghty had previously been one of Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties. In the sound era, director AIbert S. RogeII made fiIms as diverse as the comic strip adaptation LiI' Abner (1940) and the BasiI Rathbone-Bela Lugosi horror comedy The BIack Cat (1941).
BONUS: A Fight In Mid-Air (B&W, 1922, SILENT): 'A Fight in Mid-Air' is the only surviving chapter of the uItra-rare movie serial Captain Kidd (1922). Cousins Eddie Davis and Phillip RaIeigh, descendants of Captain Kidd, compete to find the Iocation of the notorious pirate's treasure map. Leading man Eddie PoIo was a prolific Hollywood stuntman during the silent era. He had previously been renown as both a circus acrobat and the first man to parachute off the EiffeI Tower (in 1915). In the late 1920s, PoIo moved to Germany, where he starred in his own series of stunt-oriented pictures (usualIy pIaying himself.) His daughter, actress MaIvina PoIo, had roles in Erich von Stroheim's FooIish Wives (1922) and Charlie ChapIin's A Woman of Paris (1923). Directed by Burton L. King, J.P. McGowan |
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