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Rudolph Valentino
The Great Lover
(2006)

This documentary, directed by Lynn Stevenson, features interviews with Annette D’Agostino Lloyd, Jimmy Bangley (who?) and collector Jim Craig, with video footage of the current Lady in Black Keri Bible.

Delta Entertainment
2006 DVD edition

Rudolph Valentino: The Great Lover (2006), color, color-toned black & white and black & white, 78 minutes, not rated, with The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), black & white, 131 minutes, not rated.

Delta Entertainment, 82 825, UPC 0-18111-28259-8.
One dual-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no subtitles; 16 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $6.98.
Release date: 21 March 2006.
Country of origin: USA

Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 7 / additional content: 5 / overall: 7.

This DVD edition of this video-based documentary features footage from several of Rudolph Valentino’s films from 35mm and 16mm source prints, pans of still photographs and newsreel footage.

The DVD also includes an edition of The Four Horsemen (1921), which has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print, and includes a 1923 audio recording of The Kashmiri Song by Rudolph Valentino sung in an unexpected operatic baritone. Among the other supplemental material is a worthless filmography and a listing of books published under Valentino’s name.