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Horse! A Horse!, A (1913 Film)
- Director
- Percy Stow
Fiction film. A cleaning lady is given the job of finding a horse for an actor playing Richard III; she provides him instead with a donkey.
Bisbetica Domata, La (1913 Film)
aka: Taming of the Shrew, The
- Producer
- Arturo Ambrosio
A version of The Taming of the Shrew which follows the principal action quite closely but eliminates the induction and the scenes with Bianca’s lovers.
Macbeth (1913 Film)
A version of Macbeth with Arthur Bouchier and Violet Vanbrugh. Other leading parts were played by German actors.
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1913 Film)
Fiction film. Ball (op cit) writes (p.168). ‘All the camera work was done out of doors, and the scenery is lovely and charmingly rustic. Remarkably for its period, the photography is technically advanced,...
Bianco Contro Negro (1913 Film)
- Director
- Ernesto Maria Pasquali
Experimental sound film of Verdi’s opera.
Indian Romeo and Juliet (1912 Film)
- Director
- Lawrence Trimble
Fiction film setting Romeo and Juliet as a story of North American tribes where the Hurons and the Mohicans are sworn enemies. Perhaps the first feature film to appropriate a Shakespeare story. The Vitagraph...
Merchant of Venice, The (1912 Film)
- Director
- Barry O’Neil
- Producer
- Edwin Thanhouser
Fiction short. The Merchant of Venice directed by Barry O’Neill and adapted by Lloyd Lonergan and Gertrude Thanhauser. William J. Bowman is Shylock.
Tempest, The (1912 Film)
Film version of The Tempest. No cast or production credits found. Ball, paraphrasing from Bioscope (December 12 1912), writes ‘the film consequently has pictured the beginning and end of the story,...
Jewish King Lear, The (1912 Film)
The film was screened at the Pavilion Theatre, London and shown at New King’s Hall - no other information known (4/2008).
Spettro de Iago, Lo (1912 Film)
aka: Vengeance of Iago, The
Fiction film. The connection to Shakespeare’s play is tenuous but the plot is set in Cyprus and involves rivalry for a girl’s affections and the attempted vengeance of the disappointed lover.