For years, nothing of Sam Wood's 1922 romantic melodrama Beyond the Rocks was thought to have survived beyond a one-minute fragment. In 2000, as the Dutch Film Museum started cataloguing vintage film prints, they found an amber-tinted nitrate positive print of the film with only two minutes damaged beyond repair. After their restoration work, this blazing melodrama, an example of Hollywood silent cinema at its artistic peak, looks brand new. Based on the book by Elinor Glyn, the Barbara Cartland of the '20s, Beyond the Rocks is the tale of a young newlywed who falls for a man much younger than her husband while honeymooning in Europe. Beautifully crafted and visualized, Beyond the Rocks offers a chance to see two stars of uncommon magnitude - Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino - paired for the one and only time.
"a cause for celebration... a precious gift... a testament to the extraordinary artistry of silent cinema." - Martin Scorsese
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