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Title: The Young Rajah

Date: 1922

Distributor: Famous Players-Lasky

Director: Philip Rosen

Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Wanda Hawley, Pat Moore, Charles Ogle, Fanny Midgley, Robert Ober, Jack Giddings, Edward Jobson, Josef Swickard, Bertram Grassby, J. Farrell MacDonald, George Periolat, George Field, Maude Wayne, William Boyd, Joseph Harrington, Spottiswoode Aitken

Summary: Believed to be a descendant of Arjuna, the mortal brother of the god Krishna, a young rajah is sent to America for safety. Raised as Amos Judd, he becomes a popular student at Harvard and falls in love with Molly Cabot. Amos can see the future in his dreams and on the day before his wedding with Molly, he dreams that he will be attacked. He enters a sanatorium for protection, but still Amos is attacked. He is rescued and told he must return to India and his people. Amos reluctantly leaves Molly to fulfill his duty, but he is hopeful because he dreamed that he marries Molly in a Hindu ceremony.

Notes: Survives incomplete in private hands from a single 16mm print struck from the Italian release version. The UCLA Film & Television Archive preserved an ersatz trailer from a 16mm diacetate print enlarged to 35mm that contains a short section of surviving footage.

Thanks to Robert S. Birchard for the update on the Italian release version.