Description

This 16-page illustrated booklet issued by the Metro Pictures Corporation is a prospectus describing the making of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a film based on the novel of the same name by Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. The novel was published in Spain in 1916 with the title Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis and in English translation in 1918. Metro claimed that it was “the most widely read book of all time, excepting the Bible.” It tells the story of two sons-in-law of a powerful Argentine landowner, one ...