The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
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An Argentine family's fortunes split across the Atlantic when the outbreak of World War I turns cousins into enemies on opposite sides of the trenches, and one carefree grandson's life gives way to sacrifice on the battlefield.
Released months before The Sheik made him a household name, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is the film that actually launched Rudolph Valentino to stardom — his smoldering tango sequence became the most talked-about scene of 1921 — inside an anti-war epic that was, for a time, the highest-grossing picture Hollywood had yet produced.
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