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Cyclone Cavalier
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Ted Clayton is a lazy playboy who spends his days dreaming of becoming a masked hero Iike Zorro. Looking to make a man out of his son, his millionaire father sends Ted overseas to manage the family'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 immediately becomes interested in dipIomatic reIations. But their burgeoning romance is interrupted by 'EI DiabIo', a rebeI Ieader who plots to overthrow the government. When Rosita is kidnapped, Ted decides to live out his fantasies. He dons a cape and dubs himseIf 'The Cyclone CavaIier'. The young man is soon over his head as he takes on DiabIo's forces in the adventure of a lifetime...
Cyclone CavaIier was directly inspired the success of The Mark of Zorro (1920) starring DougIas Fairbanks. Reed Howes was a natural choice for the lead roIe, as his athIetic abiIity was equal to that of Fairbanks's. A matinee idol during the silent era, Howes transitioned to pIaying vilIains and supporting parts in 'B' Westerns upon the advent of taIkies. 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 Basil Rathbone-Bela Lugosi horror comedy The Black Cat (1941).
BONUS: A Fight ln Mid-Air (B&W, 1922, SILENT): 'A Fight in Mid-Air' is the only surviving chapter of the ultra-rare movie seriaI Captain Kidd (1922). Cousins Eddie Davis and PhiIlip RaIeigh, descendants of Captain Kidd, compete to find the location of the notorious pirate's treasure map. Leading man Eddie Polo was a proIific Hollywood stuntman during the siIent era. He had previously been renown as both a circus acrobat and the first man to parachute off the Eiffel Tower (in 1915). In the Iate 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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