Macbeth
- Synopsis
- Feature film version of Macbeth directed by John Emerson and produced by D.W. Griffith with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Macbeth and Constance Collier as Lady Macbeth.
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Silent
- Year of release
- 1916
- Recording date
- 4 Jun 1916
- Duration
- 1000 mins; c9000 feet
- Availability
- Believed to be a lost film.
Credits
- Director
- John Emerson
- Producer
- D.W. Griffith
- Cinematographer
- George W. Hill; Victor Fleming
- Screenplay
- John Emerson
- Cast
Additional Details
- Production type
- Fiction Films
- Historical period
- Medieval
- Plays
- Macbeth
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- Erich von Stroheim, uncredited, was assistant director on the film.
- General
- The production reputedly was to include 250 shots with 1000 extras while the mounting of the witches scene cost the studio $10,000. The film was not a popular or financial success; expected to run at His Majesty’s in London where it opened on June 22, it ran only one. Filmed in Los Angeles much was made of the research into Scottish and English archives to achieve historical accuracy.
- Reviews
- Ball, Robert Hamilton. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968), pp. 229-35, 362-3.
Ball, Robert Hamilton ‘The Shakespeare Film as Record: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree’ in Shakespeare Quarterly, July 1952, pp 227-36.
'Can Shakespeare Be Filmed?' The Bioscope, 29 June 1916, p. 1390.
Production Company
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "Macbeth". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av68580 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)