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'Lost' Valentino film found after 75 years

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, April 17 (UPI) -- "Beyond the Rocks," a silent movie made in 1922 starring Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson has been found in the Netherlands.

The movie has been considered lost for 75 years, the BBC reported Saturday.

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The movie, which is in good condition except for two minutes, was part of a collection of 2,000 film canisters willed to the Dutch Filmmuseum by a private collector.

The Filmmuseum will restore the film, repairing scratches and other minor damage. A new score has been commissioned to be ready when the film is featured at an Amsterdam movie festival next year.

The 81-minute romantic melodrama is about a woman pushed into a marriage with an older man but who then falls for Valentino's character on her honeymoon.

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