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  1. Taming of the Shrew, The (1923 Film)

    Series
    Gems of Literature
    Director
    Edwin J. Collins
    Producer
    Edward Godal

    Condensed version of The Taming of the Shrew concentrating on the wooing and winning of Katharina by Petruchio. Ball (op cit. p. 286) is underwhelmed by the film finding the camera stationary, the acting too...

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  2. Alte Gesetz, Das (1923 Film)

    aka: Baruch Ancient Law, The

    Director
    Ewald André Dupont

    Feature film. In nineteenth-century Austria, a young Jew leaves the ghetto to become an actor. He eventually becomes famous and is reunited with his disapproving Rabbi father. Ernst Deutsch, as the Jew...

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  3. Kaufmann von Venedig, Der (1923 Film)

    aka: Shylock, Der Jude von Venedig Jew of Mestri, The

    Director
    Peter Paul Felner
    Producer
    Peter Paul Felner

    Feature film in theory based on Shakespeare’s own sources for The Merchant of Venice but in practice partly Shakespeare and partly director Felner’s invention. Werner Krauss is Shylock.

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  4. Yellow Week at Stanway, The (1923 Film)

    Director
    J.M. Barrie

    Amateur film. Record of a house party held by author J.M. Barrie at Stanway, Gloucestershire, the home of Lord Wemyss. Written and directed by Barrie, it features a semi-dramatised dream sequence in which...

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  5. Othello (1922 Film)

    aka: Moor, The

    Director
    Dimitri Buchowetzki
    Producer
    Paul Blumenthal

    A version of the play, based on both Cinthio’s original tale and Shakespeare’s play, with echoes of Reinhardt and Expressionism. Emil Jannings is Othello.

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  6. Glastonbury Past and Present (1922 Film)

    Director
    H.O. Martinek

    Interest film, in five parts, based on the Glastonbury pageant of 1922. Episode one shows the arrival of Joseph of Arimathea to preach Christianity to British peoples; episode 2 shows King Alfred’s...

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  7. Carnival (1921 Film)

    Director
    Harley Knoles

    Feature film. Simonetta, the wife of the celebrated Italian actor Silvio Steno, spends time with his best friend Scipione while Steno prepares for a production of Othello. Simonetta and Scipione go to the...

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  8. Othello (1920 Film)

    Director
    Anson Dyer
    Producer
    Cecil Hepworth

    Cut-out animated cartoon burlesque of Othello. Bioscope (29 July 1920) described the film thus - ‘The Moor of Venice becomes a seaside nigger minstrel whilst Desdemona (known as Mona for short) is the...

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  9. Hamlet (1920 Film)

    aka: Hamlet: The Drama of Vengeance

    Director
    Svend Gade; Heinz Schall

    Feature film which presents Hamlet as a princess. While the King of Denmark is seriously ill his wife gives birth to a daughter, telling the court that a son has been born in order to safeguard the crown....

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  10. Oh’Phelia (1919 Film)

    Director
    Anson Dyer
    Producer
    Cecil Hepworth

    Animated cartoon burlesque. ‘Amlet drives Ophelia mad by offering her vegetables instead of flowers, then cutting off her hair ("to bob or not to bob"). Laertes complains to the King of ‘Amlet’s...

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