Disraeli (1916 film)

Disraeli
Directed by	Charles Calvert Percy Nash
Produced by	Arrigo Bocchi
Written by	Louis N. Parker (play and screenplay)
Starring	Dennis Eadie Mary Jerrold Cyril Raymond
Production company	NB Films
Distributed by	NB Films
Release dates	November 1916
Running time	6 reels
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Disraeli is a 1916 British silent biographical film directed by Charles Calvert and Percy Nash and starring Dennis Eadie, Mary Jerrold and Cyril Raymond. The film was based on the 1911 play Disraeli by Louis N. Parker, which was adapted twice more, as a 1921 silent version and most famously in 1929 as an early sound film. It was made at Ealing Studios.^[1]

Synospsis

The mid-Victorian statesman Benjamin Disraeli manages to thwart the plans of Britain's rival Great Powers and gain control of the strategically important Suez Canal.

Cast

Dennis Eadie as Benjamin Disraeli
Mary Jerrold as Lady Beaconsfield
Cyril Raymond as Lord Deeford
Dorothy Bellew as Clarissa
Fred Morgan as Nigel Foljambe
Daisy Cordell as Mrs. Travers
Cecil Morton York as Duke of Glastonbury
Evelyn Harding as Duchess of Glastonbury
Arthur M. Cullin as Sir Michael Probert
A.B. Imeson as Meyers
Mrs. Henry Lytton as Queen Victoria

References

↑ Low p.87

Bibliography

Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1914-1918. Routledge, 2005.

External links

Disraeli at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Charles Calvert

Disraeli (1916) Ace of Hearts (1916) The Edge of Youth (1920) Walls of Prejudice (1920) The Way of a Man (1921) In His Grip (1921) A Prince of Lovers (1922) Lights of London (1923) Bonnie Prince Charlie (1923)

The films of Percy Nash

The Golden Chance (1913)
Monty's Proposal (1913)
Black-Eyed Susan (1913)
The Harbour Lights (1914)
Enoch Arden (1914)
The Waifs (1915)
The Mesmerist (1915)
The Love of Their Lives (1915)
Bunting's Blink (1915)
A Strong Argument (1915)
A Rogue's Wife (1915)
The Little Minister (1915)
Taking a Film (1915)
Sisters (1915)
Just in Time (1915)
Her First Husband (1915)
Did He? The Brute! (1915)
Chicken Hearted (1915)
The Romany Rye (1915)
Rosy Rapture (1915)
Master and Man (1915)
Flying from Justice (1915)
The Coal King (1915)
The Black Night (1916)
Sul trapezio (1916)
Nella jungla nera (1916)
I briganti (1916)
L'isola delle rose (1916)
Il potere sovrano (1916)
Disraeli (1916)
Motherhood (1917)
Boy Scouts Be Prepared (1917)
A King of the People (1917)
Herself (1917)
Boys of the Otter Patrol (1918)
Westward Ho! (1919)
Her Lonely Soldier (1919)
Darby and Joan (1919)
Women Who Win (1919)
The Elder Miss Blossom (1919)
The Flag Lieutenant (1919)
Won by a Head (1920)
The Story of the Rosary (1920)
The Old Arm Chair (1920)
Rodney Stone (1920)
Hobson's Choice (1920)
The Likeness of the Night (1921)
The Croxley Master (1921)
Ships That Pass in the Night (1921)
How Kitchener Was Betrayed (1921)
His Other Wife (1921)

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