The Young Rajah

Infobox_Film
name = The Young Rajah
director = Phil Rosen (as Phillip Rosen)
producer = Paramount/Famous Players-Lasky
writer = John Ames Mitchell (novel)
Alethan Luce(play)
June Mathis (adaptation)
starring = Rudolph Valentino
Wanda Hawley
Charles Ogle
distributor = Paramount/Famous Players-Lasky
released = November 12, 1922 (USA general release)
runtime =
language = Silent film
English intertitles
country = USA
imdb_id = 0013802

"The Young Rajah" is a 1922 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino. The film was based on the book "Amos Judd" by John Ames Mitchell.

ynopsis

Amos Judd (Valentino) has an All-American life, but is actually a noble from the Far East.

Reception

"The Young Rajah" was one of Valentino's most commercially and critically unsuccessful motion pictures. The film is perhaps best remembered today for its elaborate and suggestive costumes, which were designed by Valentino's wife Natacha Rambova. Photographs of Valentino wearing these outfits, some of which left little to the imagination, are still widely circulated today.

Restored Version

For most of the twentieth century, "The Young Rajah" was considered a lost film. However, in 2005, Turner Classic Movies announced that they were financing the restoration of the surviving footage of the picture, and the channel aired the resulting program in May 2006. The movie was assembled from still photos and poor-quality clips of the film, with additional title screens being added to bridge the gaps in the storyline. In addition, some intertitles were taken from a Spanish-language edition, and these were translated and replaced with new title screens. The result is a smoothly-flowing silent film told primarily through photos with the occasional moving image.

External links and sources

* [http://www.turnerclassicmovies.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=135673&mainArticleId=133224 TCM: History of the Film Fragment and Restoration]
* [http://www.silentsaregolden.com/youngrajahreview.html 1923 review from "Motion Picture" magazine]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013802/fullcredits "The Young Rajah" at the Internet Movie Databse]
*"Dark Lover: The life and death of Rudolph Valentino." Emily W. Leider, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003, ISBN 0-374-28239-0