The Cossacks (1928) On DVD

Actor:          John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Ernest Torrence, Nils Asther, Paul Hurst                                                                                                              
Director:      George Hill
Genre:         Drama
Year:           1928
Studio:        Warner
Length:        92
Released:    10/28/2014
Rating:         Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:        DVD
Misc:            NTSC, Black & White
Language:    English
Subtitles  :    N/A

DESCRIPTION:

A novel by Leo Tolstoy provides the source for the rowdy and romantic silent-era adventure, The Cossacks, presented to todays audiences in a superb print and with a colorful orchestral score by Robert Israel. john Gilbert, the screens famed Great Lover, portrays Lukashka, son of a Cossack Chieftain. Mocked for his peace-loving ways, the young Cossack proves hes made of sterner stuff when he outrides and overwhelms enemy Turks whove escaped with his villages horses. Yet greater tests of his courage and prowess await Lukashka. He also faces a romantic rival - a czarist prince intent on marrying Lukashkas beloved (played by Renee Adoree, Gilberts costar in The Big Parade). Applauded by The New York Times Mordaunt Hall for its earnest attention to the atmospheric detail, the film is rife with celebration, ceremony and, above all, amazing trick-riding performed on galloping steeds by real-life Cossack horsemen.