⚔️ Blood and Sand (1922) – A timeless silent drama starring Rudolph Valentino, directed by Fred Niblo, and produced by Paramount Pictures. Based on the Spanish novel Sangre y Arena by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, this film tells the passionate story of ambition, fame, love, and betrayal in the world of Spanish bullfighting.
📖 Plot: Juan Gallardo (Rudolph Valentino), born into poverty, rises to fame as one of Spain’s greatest matadors. He marries his childhood sweetheart, the virtuous Carmen (Lila Lee). But as his success grows, he is drawn into a torrid affair with the seductive widow Doña Sol (Nita Naldi). Torn between true love and temptation, Juan’s downfall leads to tragedy in the bullring — where fame, passion, and fate collide.
🎭 Cast:
Rudolph Valentino as Juan Gallardo
Lila Lee as Carmen
Nita Naldi as Doña Sol
Walter Long as Plumitas
Rosa Rosanova, Charles Belcher, Rosita Marstini, and more
📽️ Production Notes:
Adapted for the screen by June Mathis (credited with discovering Valentino).
Edited by Dorothy Arzner, later one of Hollywood’s pioneering female directors.
Premiered in Los Angeles in 1922, becoming one of the year’s top-grossing films.
Cemented Valentino’s status as one of the greatest stars of the silent era.
🥀 Legacy:
Inspired remakes in 1941 (starring Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth) and 1989 (with Sharon Stone).
Even inspired the popular cocktail, Blood and Sand.
✅ Public Domain Notice: This film is in the Public Domain. Free to watch, share, and distribute. No copyright infringement intended.
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00:00Rudolph Valentino, the greatest of screen lovers, opposite, the queen of movie sirens, Nita Naldi, in the 1922 hit, Blood and Sand.
00:11Silence, please.
00:16The great stars, the excitement, the thrills, the laughter, and the heartbreak of Hollywood's golden era.
00:30A small-town arena in Spain, where young Spaniards meet for their national sport, just as American kids team up for Sandlot baseball, played by Rudolph Valentino.
01:00Valentino had been popular since appearing as the sheik two years before, but it was his sensitive work as Gallardo in this 1922 film, Blood and Sand, that first brought him star billing.
01:11Chiripia, Gallardo's best friend, takes a turn.
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02:10With the cool courage of a dying man-a-lady, Chiripia tells Gallardo not to be deterred from making the arena his career.
02:22The promising amateur becomes Spain's most idolized matador.
02:35And returning to his hometown, he sees for the first time in two years his childhood sweetheart, Carmen, played by Lila Lee.
02:44The neighbors rush to tell Juan's mother he's home, and they paint for her a glowing picture of his latest triumph.
02:52Though proud now of Juan's fame, his mother still has misgivings over his having picked so hazardous a vocation.
03:12So too has Carmen.
03:14Carmen's father adds his congratulations.
03:26And it is apparent that there is nothing in the way of an early wedding.
03:42In celebration, Gallardo appears at the local cafes.
04:00Valentino had started as a dancer, and he had made a hit with his tango in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, his first major film.
04:18And so, with a scene like this, the Blood and Sand producers knew they were giving his fans what they wanted.
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05:10The Valentino dancing training showed not just in the graceful movement of his body,
05:15but in his expressive use of his hands.
05:30Carmen, shy, home-loving, wonders whether she can make the great Gallardo happy.
05:48The months pass, and now in Madrid's Plaza de Toros,
05:53the great Gallardo entertains the presidential party and the aristocratic Dona Sol.
06:00Played by Nita Naldi.
06:26At home Carmen prays he'll be safe.
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07:10Though quite accustomed to the admiration of beautiful women,
07:17Gallardo senses a special magnetism in this one.
07:21And after the fight, he accepts his manager's offer to introduce him to Dona Sol.
07:40At home, another bullfight. The combatants, Juan's young nephews.
08:10Carmen has given Juan no children of their own, but she has given him all her love.
08:22And, she hopes, the encouragement necessary to steady him in his dangerous profession.
08:28The exotic villa of Dona Sol.
08:44Dona Sol has pressed Gallardo's manager to bring Juan for a visit.
08:49And Juan, intrigued, complies.
08:58Artful as he has become in the ring, Juan is at heart still the socially awkward small-town lad,
09:07drawn by the blandishments of a world he has never known.
09:28The Argentine family of Dona Sol.
09:58Dona Sol has further pre-arranged with the manager that after dinner he withdraw discreetly.
10:28I don't know.
10:58At home Carmen reads, the beautiful Doña Sol returned to Seville last week.
11:07It is rumored that she no longer wears the famous ring which once belonged to Cleopatra.
11:28His flower, it was a gift from Carmen.
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13:29REMORSEFUL, ONE TELLS A FRIEND HE'LL END THE AFFAIR
13:34THAT HE'LL GO TO THE COUNTRY AND FORGET
13:39BUT ONE CAN'T RESIST SAYING GOODBYE TO DOÑA SAL IN PERSON
13:55AND TO DO SO HE ATTENDS ONE OF HER PARTIES THE NIGHT BEFORE HE LEAVES
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15:22RINCANADO, GOLIARDO'S COUNTRY ESTATE.
15:26AS HE AND HIS PARTY ARRIVE, THEY FIND A STRANGE LIMOSINE STALLED NEAR THE GATE.
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16:02No chance of completing repairs before morning.
16:11Chivalry demands that Gallardo be a reluctant Samaritan.
16:32In the morning, another visitor, Plumitas the Bandit.
16:42Years before, Plumitas and Juan had met and ever since have followed each other's careers.
16:47Careers that are parallel in that both live by the sword and face death daily.
17:02To punish Gallardo for ending their affair, Doña Sol plans to humiliate him by being present when Carmen arrives with Juan's mother.
17:14Plumitas is played by Walter Long.
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18:00To wound him further, she makes a confession.
18:03There had been nothing really the matter with her car the evening before.
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18:19His two lives confront him. Desire and pure love.
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20:49The last bullfight of the season takes place that afternoon, and Juan must be on hand.
21:08He knows the contest now is not so much with the bull as with his own conscience.
21:14Over the wrong, he knows he has done Carmen.
21:16The last bullfight of the season takes place and will be on hand.
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21:54The most wanted man in Spain risks appearing in public in order to give one encouragement.
22:24In the chapel below the arena, Carmen prays.
22:35Plumitas has been spotted by the police.
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23:56It matters now that the end has come to one man in dishonor and to the other in a cloak
24:02of glory.
24:10The next fight goes on as scheduled.
24:12The author, Vicente Ibanez, wrote Blood and Sand as an indictment of bullfighting.
24:17But it was also an indictment of predatory women.
24:24The author, Vicente Ibanez, wrote the police.
24:34The author is a witness to the police.
24:36The author is a witness to the police.
24:38The author is a witness to the police.
24:40The author, Vicente Ibanez, wrote the police.
24:54The End
25:24Rudolph Valentino himself was to meet death at the height of his fame
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