Beyond the Rocks (film)

Beyond the Rocks is a 1922 American silent romantic drama film directed by Sam Wood, starring Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson. It is based on the 1906 novel of the same name by Elinor Glyn.

Captain Fitzgerald Alec B. Francis, a retired guardsman on a modest pension, has to support three daughters Theodora Swanson and her older halfsisters. Theodoras sisters pin their hopes on her marrying a wealthy man.One day, Theodora goes out on a rowboat off the coast of Dorset and falls into the water. She is rescued by Lord Hector Bracondale Valentino. He is young, handsome and wealthy, but not the marrying kind. Out of a sense of duty to her beloved father, she reluctantly agrees to wed the middleaged, short, stout Josiah Brown Robert Bolder, a former grocers assistant who is now a multimillionaire. ........

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