1926: While on tour promoting his latest movie "Son Of The Sheik", Rudolph Valentino, the Hollywood silent screen icon, suffers a sudden collapse and is hospitalized at the New York Polyclinic Hospital. After an emergency surgery, Valentino loses his grip on reality and, while hallucinating, reexperiences his life in Hollywood from - as a silent film shown at a movie palace, the magical portal between life and eternity, between reality and illusion. Dubbed "The Great Lover" around the world, Valentino plays dashing and virile Sheiks on the screen and drives his female audience into hysteria. However, his private life is a complete failure - the Sheik cannot satisfy even his own domineering wife. Snapping back to reality, Valentino finds himself abandoned, alone and stricken with illness. Pam, a young deaf-mute Valentino's fan, who works as a nurses' aid at the hospital, will show the God of Love for the first time in his life what love can truly mean.
as Lady in Black
as Gabriella Guglielmi
as Madame Nazimova
as Valentino's Spirit
as Alexander De Salm
as Dr. Mecker
as Paul Hearts
as Rudolpho Guglielmi
as Young Rudolpho
as Natacha Rambova
as Kazimir
as Maid
as Rudolph Valentino
as Winifred Hudnut
as Theodore Kozloff
as Norman Kerry
as Bryce
as Stanley Levy
as Adolph Zukor
as Young Lady in Black
as Gertrude
as Joseph Zuckerman
as Laura
as Georgia Thym
as Richard Hudnut
as Maxwell Krager
as Radio Announcer
as Doctor
as Dick Dorgan (uncredited)
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
as Theatre Vendor Girl (uncredited)
