“What worked once should work again” was the guiding principle for Paramount Pictures when it decided to start production of *Blood and Sand*, 1922 silent melodrama directed by Fred Niblo, a film, which, for all its practical purposes, could be seen as a follow up to 1921 big hit *The Four Horsemen of the Apocalpyse*. Just like *Four Horsemen*, this film is based on the novel by Spanish writer Vicente Blanco Ibañez…