San Francisco film historian Donna Hill has just authored a new book on the silent film star Rudolph Valentino. It’s a beautifully produced pictorial titled Rudolph Valentino, The Silent Idol: His Life in Photographs.
G.W. Pabst stands alongside Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau as one of the three great directors working in Germany during the silent film era. Pabst, however, has not always gotten the attention paid to his more celebrated colleagues.