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  1. Sentimental Bloke, The (1919 Film)

    Director
    Raymond Longford
    Producer
    Raymond Longford

    Feature film about working class barrowman redeemed by the love of a good woman. Bill, the bloke, decides to reform his drinking and gambling ways after he has been jailed for hitting a policeman during a...

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  2. Amleto (1917 Film)

    aka: Hamlet

    Director
    Eleuterio Rodolfi

    Feature film with Ruggero Ruggeri as Hamlet.`...Rodolfi finds an intriquing halfway style between film and theatre, eschewing a more conventional cutting scheme. Key thoughts are shown in close-up, there are...

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  3. Merchant of Venice, The (1916 Film)

    Director
    Walter West
    Producer
    Walter West

    Feature film. A recording of a St James’s Theatre production with Matheson Lang as Shylock.

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  4. Twelfth Night (1916 Film)

    Series
    Gaumont Graphic

    Newsreel item. Nurses and wounded soldiers at Bournbrook Military Hospital in Birmingham watch an open-air production of Twelfth Night.

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  5. When Hungry Hamlet Fled (1915 Film)

    Comedy short. An experienced actor directs a melodrama for an amateur troupe. A jealous young man sabotages the set.

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  6. Cajus Julius Caesar (1914 Film)

    aka: Julius Caesar Caio Guilio Cesare

    Director
    Enrico Guazzoni

    Feature film. The story of Julius Caesar with just occasional borrowings from Shakespeare’s play. Filmed in the traditional Italian spectacular tradition the plot covers a good deal of Caesar’s life and...

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  7. Tragedia Alla Corte di Sicilia, Una (1914 Film)

    aka: Winter’s Tale, The Lost Princess, The Novella d’Inverno: Una Novella di Shakespeare

    Director
    Baldassare Negroni

    Abbreviated version of The Winter’s Tale. William Shakespeare reads the play to some friends. The story is largely the plot of the play but Autolycus is omitted and there is no pursuit of a bear. McKernan...

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  8. Shylock, Ou le More de Venise (1913 Film)

    aka: Merchant of Venice, The Shylock

    Director
    Henri Desfontaines
    Producer
    Clément-Maurice

    Fiction film of The Merchant of Venice directed by Henri Desfontaines with Harry Baur as Shylock. The film greatly abbreviates the play and omits the Jessica subplot and other incidents. Ball comments ‘The...

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  9. Hamlet (1913 Film)

    Director
    E. Hay Plumb
    Producer
    Cecil Hepworth

    Feature film. A record of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson and the Drury Lane Company’s production of the play. `... the film’s chief purpose is to preserve a performance and a production and makes few...

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  10. Cardinal Wolsey (1912 Film)

    Director
    J. Stuart Blackton; Lawrence Trimble

    Fiction short depicting the historic disagreement between Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey concerning the king’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon. McKernan & Terris (op cit) note "the debt to Shakespeare is...

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