The Married Virgin
by Joseph Maxwell
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Actor: Edward Jobson, Frank Newburg, Kathleen Kirkham, Rudolph Valentino, Vera SissonDirector: Joseph Maxwell
Writer: Hayden Talbot
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); Japanese (Dubbed)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC, Silent
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 71 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-12-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Married Virgin
Movie Review: Introducing the Jazz Age Adonis!
Summary: 5 Stars
This l918 movie antique would ordinarily have vanished into limbo decades ago if not for one exhilirating little detail: the dazzling performance of the Adonis of the Jazz Age: Rudolph Valentino.
Reading about a mythical screen legend is very different from actually seeing him--right on the cusp of super stardom that would transform the male movie star for all time.
As the treacherous, amoral count, Valentino is amazingly modern in his looks and perfomance. He sports little of the heavy make-up that so dates silent screen performers. He's frisky, lively, playful and above all--drop dead beautiful.
The matinee idol of that time was either barrel-chested and fleshy (i.e., Thomas Meighan), or slender and flat chested with spindley legs (a la Wallace Reid). Valentino defies these styles and we see muscular, beauifully proportioned dream lover with powerful legs and shoulders.
You notice this especially in a swimming scene when Valentino dons a l918 male bathing suit that covers the top with a sleeveless jersey. His pin-up boy torso is evident and he plays the beach scene with a playful air of high energy.
He wears his wardrobe beautifully and he acts so natural, without any of the eye-popping, theatrical gestures that dated many silent screen performers. Ironically, he would indulge in eye-popping snarls when he hit the big-time in l921's "The Sheik."
The true stars of that era--Valentino, Swanson, Pickford, Fairbanks-really were worshipped by their millions of fans because of their isolated aloofness. When fans saw these glittering creatures, it was always in a screen fantasy. These legends were rarely seen by the man-in-the-street. Today's stars, of course, are all over TV, the tabloids, blabbing about their problems with ulcers, shopping, weight-gains and cellulite.
That's why being able to catch Valentino--on the very verge of his mega-stardom--is such an exhilirating experience. We can see for ourselves those flashing dark eye, the impish grin, that glorious torso and that sparkling charisma that was there from the beginning.
"The Married Virgin" is a movie that any worshipper of Valentino or of the silent screen's small gallery of true immortals, should have in their library. Come to think of it, I can't think of anyone else in the cast of "The Married Virgin."
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