The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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American film black-and-white film epic film silent film war film

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a 1921 silent epic war film that catapulted Rudolph Valentino to stardom and became one of the early cinema’s major box-office successes.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American film → black-and-white film → epic film → silent film → war film →
authorOfSourceWork	Vicente Blasco Ibáñez →
basedOn	The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (novel) →
cinematographyBy	John F. Seitz →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
director	Rex Ingram →
distributedBy	Metro Pictures Corporation →
distributor	Metro Pictures →
era	silent era →
featuresCharacter	Julio Desnoyers → Madariaga → Marguerite Laurier →
filmingLocation	Los Angeles →
genre	romantic drama → war drama →
hasAlternativeTitle	The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse →
hasFilmFormat	35 mm →
hasIntertitlesLanguage	English →
hasSetting	Argentina → France →
hasTheme	apocalypse → family conflict → war and its consequences →
influenced	Rudolph Valentino’s screen persona as a Latin lover →
notableFor	being one of early cinema’s major box-office successes → catapulting Rudolph Valentino to stardom →
notableScene	tango sequence featuring Rudolph Valentino →
originalLanguage	Silent film with English intertitles →
partOf	American silent cinema →
producer	Metro Pictures → Rex Ingram →
productionCompany	Metro Pictures →
releaseDate	1921-03-06 →
releaseYear	1921 →
runtime	approximately 132 minutes →
screenwriter	June Mathis →
setDuring	World War I →
starring	Alice Terry → Josef Swickard → Pomeroy Cannon → Rudolph Valentino → Wallace Beery →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alice Terry → Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguella → Rodolfo Valentino → Rudolph Valentino → Rudolph Valentino →	notableWork
Madariaga ("The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921 film)") → Marguerite Laurier →	appearsIn
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921 film) ("The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (novel)") →	basedOn
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921 film) ("The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse") →	hasAlternativeTitle