Argentine Love (1924)
Directed by Allan Dwan
Genres - Drama |
Release Date - Dec 22, 1924 (USA - Unknown), Dec 22, 1924 (USA) |
Run Time - 66 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Argentine Love is based on a novel by Vincent Blasco-Ibanez, whose Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse made a star of Rudolph Valentino. Not surprisingly, leading man Ricardo Cortez plays a Valentino clone: a headstrong Argentinian in love with fetching senorita Bebe Daniels. But Daniels prefers the company of American engineer James Rennie. Argentine Love is kept moving at a fast clip by Allan Dwan, who was far less lugubriously self-indulgent than Four Horsemen helmsman Rex Ingram. In retrospect, it is understandable that Paramount wanted to make a Valentino film without Valentino: he had recently ankled the studio in a bitter (and well-publicized) dispute over story material.
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America, army, bad-guy, engineering, good-guy, lookalike, love, swashbuckler