{"product_id":"blood-sand-1","title":"Blood \u0026 Sand","description":"Amazon.com\n\nRudolph Valentino's star power burns through this adaptation of Vicente Blasco Ibanez's exotic melodrama of an Andalusian peasant boy who becomes the greatest matador in all of Spain. The swaggering but sincere Valentino marries good Catholic girl Lila Lee, a coy innocent with bow-tie lips, but is seduced by voracious vamp Nita Naldi, a high-society man-eater who decides to add a bullfighter to her list of conquests. Journeyman director Fred Niblo (the 1925 version of Ben-Hur) mounts this grand piece of romantic nonsense with little subtlety but plenty of spectacle, and in the best Hollywood tradition celebrates the macho glamour of the sport while decrying its cruelty. While it lacks the grace or style of Rouben Mamoulian's 1941 color remake, Valentino's charisma and confidence and smoldering eyes give the film a simmering, sultry life that no remake has been able to capture. --Sean Axmaker\n\nProduct Description\n\nAn immortal icon of brooding sexuality, Rudolph Valentino has become one of silent cinema's most enigmatic and entrancing performers. In Blood and Sand he stars as Juan Gallardo, a young Spaniard who achieves his boyhood ambition to become a celebrated toreador. But with fame comes temptation and treachery, and the triumphant Juan finds himself the victim of his own desires and the sinister charms of the exotic Dona Sol (Nita Naldi).\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B00005O5CC\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B00005O5CC.N\u003cbr\u003eCondition: New\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Rudolph Valentino|Rosa Rosanova|Leo White|Lila Lee|Charles Belcher|Rosita Marstini|Fred Becker|Jack Winn|Harry Lamont|George Field|Gilbert Clayton|Dorothy Arzner|Fred Niblo|Walter Long|June Mathis|Vicente Blasco Ibez|Tom Cushing\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Dvd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41516505202746,"sku":"DBV.B00005O5CC.N","price":17.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/B00005O5CC-0.jpg?v=1783739569","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/blood-sand-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}