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Auction History Result 9k1553 BLOOD & SAND insert 1922 matador Rudolph Valentino with Lila Lee & in bullfight, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/5/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) Blood and Sand, the 1922 Fred Niblo silent Spain bullfighting matador romantic love triangle melodrama ("From the novel by Vicente Blasco Ibanez and the play by Tom Cushing."; about a young matador who marries his childhood sweetheart, but then, after he becomes a big success, he betrays his wife with a beautiful aristocrat, but his wife accepts it and stays with him, but when he starts to age and looses some of his skills, he is in a major bullfight, and he sees his lover with another man, and that distracts him, and he gets fatally gored, and he dies in his wife's arms, telling her he always loved her!) starring Rudolph Valentino (billed as "Rodolph Valentino", which was his actual name), Lila Lee, Nita Naldi, Rosa Rosanova, Leo White, Rosita Marstini, and Walter Long. We saw reference on the Internet to there being an alternate ending to this movie that was shot where it is a "happy ending", where he does not die, but we can't confirm that. Note that Valentino wanted this movie shot on location in Spain, but Paramount insisted on shooting it in Hollywood, to save money. Recently enacted animal cruelty laws meant that no bulls could be hurt while filming, so stock footage of bullfights had to be used. But fortunately, the film editor was Dorothy Arzner (later a very successful female director), and she interspersed stock footage with footage of Valentino so well that most viewers could not detect that this was done (this was a pretty new technique at the time). Valentino had had major success with "The Sheik" and "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" the year before, and this movie was also a giant success, and made him a superstar in Hollywood and throughout the world! Note that the movie was remade in 1941, with Tyrone Power Jr. and Rita Hayworth. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that not only have we never auctioned this insert before, but other than window cards, we have not auctioned a U.S. poster from this movie in 20 years! Condition: very good. The poster was never folded. It had a 1" tear in the center of the top border, with tiny paper loss at the top of the tear, and someone put a piece of tape on the back of that area. They also put a piece of tape on the back of the top right blank corner, where there were creases. There are some faint smudges scattered in the solid colored areas and in the bottom of the woman's dress, and some faint smudges in parts of the blank borders (see our image). Other than the above, the poster is in nice condition, especially considering it is just under a century old! Learn More about condition grades 
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