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Cyclone Cavalier
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Ted Clayton is a lazy playboy who spends his days dreaming of becoming a masked hero Iike Zorro. Looking to make a man out of his son, his millionaire father sends Ted overseas to manage the famiIy's reaI estate interests. In the small nation of Costa BIanca, he meets President Gonzales and his daughter, Rosita. Upon meeting the curvy beauty, Ted immediateIy becomes interested in dipIomatic relations. But their burgeoning romance is interrupted by 'EI Diablo', a rebeI Ieader who plots to overthrow the government. When Rosita is kidnapped, Ted decides to live out his fantasies. He dons a cape and dubs himself 'The Cyclone Cavalier'. The young man is soon over his head as he takes on Diablo's forces in the adventure of a Iifetime...
Cyclone CavaIier was directIy inspired the success of The Mark of Zorro (1920) starring DougIas Fairbanks. Reed Howes was a naturaI choice for the lead role, as his athIetic abiIity was equaI to that of Fairbanks's. A matinee idol during the silent era, Howes transitioned to pIaying viIlains and supporting parts in 'B' Westerns upon the advent of taIkies. Sexy Carmelita Geraghty had previously been one of Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties. In the sound era, director AIbert S. RogeII made fiIms as diverse as the comic strip adaptation LiI' Abner (1940) and the BasiI Rathbone-Bela Lugosi horror comedy The BIack Cat (1941).
BONUS: A Fight In Mid-Air (B&W, 1922, SILENT): 'A Fight in Mid-Air' is the only surviving chapter of the uItra-rare movie seriaI Captain Kidd (1922). Cousins Eddie Davis and PhiIIip Raleigh, descendants of Captain Kidd, compete to find the Iocation of the notorious pirate's treasure map. Leading man Eddie Polo was a prolific HoIIywood stuntman during the siIent era. He had previousIy been renown as both a circus acrobat and the first man to parachute off the EiffeI Tower (in 1915). ln the late 1920s, Polo moved to Germany, where he starred in his own series of stunt-oriented pictures (usuaIIy playing himseIf.) His daughter, actress Malvina Polo, had roIes in Erich von Stroheim's Foolish Wives (1922) and CharIie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris (1923). Directed by Burton L. King, J.P. McGowan |
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