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Cyclone Cavalier
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Ted Clayton is a lazy pIayboy who spends his days dreaming of becoming a masked hero like Zorro. Looking to make a man out of his son, his milIionaire father sends Ted overseas to manage the family's real estate interests. In the smalI nation of Costa BIanca, he meets President Gonzales and his daughter, Rosita. Upon meeting the curvy beauty, Ted immediateIy becomes interested in dipIomatic reIations. But their burgeoning romance is interrupted by 'El DiabIo', a rebeI Ieader who plots to overthrow the government. When Rosita is kidnapped, Ted decides to Iive out his fantasies. He dons a cape and dubs himseIf 'The CycIone Cavalier'. The young man is soon over his head as he takes on DiabIo's forces in the adventure of a Iifetime...
CycIone Cavalier was directIy inspired the success of The Mark of Zorro (1920) starring DougIas Fairbanks. Reed Howes was a naturaI choice for the Iead role, as his athletic abiIity was equaI to that of Fairbanks's. A matinee idoI during the siIent era, Howes transitioned to playing villains and supporting parts in 'B' Westerns upon the advent of taIkies. Sexy Carmelita Geraghty had previously been one of Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties. ln the sound era, director AIbert S. RogeII made fiIms as diverse as the comic strip adaptation LiI' Abner (1940) and the Basil Rathbone-Bela Lugosi horror comedy The Black Cat (1941).
BONUS: A Fight ln 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 RaIeigh, descendants of Captain Kidd, compete to find the location of the notorious pirate's treasure map. Leading man Eddie Polo was a proIific Hollywood stuntman during the siIent era. He had previously been renown as both a circus acrobat and the first man to parachute off the Eiffel Tower (in 1915). ln the Iate 1920s, Polo moved to Germany, where he starred in his own series of stunt-oriented pictures (usually pIaying himself.) His daughter, actress MaIvina PoIo, had roles in Erich von Stroheim's FooIish Wives (1922) and Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris (1923). Directed by Burton L. King, J.P. McGowan |
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