She (1925 film)

She (1925)
She (1925)
	File:SHE (1925), Movie Poster.jpg Movie Poster
Directed by	Leander de Cordova ; G. B. Samuelson
Written by	Walter Summers (scenario); H. Rider Haggard (intertitles)
Produced by	G. B. Samuelson; Arthur A. Lee
Starring	Betty Blythe; Carlyle Blackwell
Cinematography	Sydney Blythe
Music by	Louis Levy
Distributed by	Lee-Bradford Corporation
Release dates	1926 (US); 3 May 1926 (Finland);
Running time	9 reels; (8,250 feet)
Countries	Germany ; United Kingdom
Languages	Silent; (German, Finnish and/or English intertitles)

She is a 1925 British-German fantasy adventure film directed by Leander de Cordova and G. B. Samuelson and starring Betty Blythe, Carlyle Blackwell and Mary Odette. It was filmed in Berlin as a co-production, and based on H. Rider Haggard's novel of the same name. According to the opening credits, the intertitles were specially written for the film by Haggard himself; he died in 1925, the year the film was made.^[1]

The book has been a popular subject for filmmakers in the silent and sound eras, with at least five short film adaptations produced in 1908, 1911, 1916, 1917, and 1919 respectively.^[2] The 1925 version was the first feature-length adaptation, although it was trimmed from its original 98-minute running time down to 69 minutes for US release.

It is the most faithful of the three feature-length adaptations to date and follows the action, characters and locations of the original novel closely.

Plot

At Cambridge University, Horace Holly, nicknamed "Baboon" is visited by the dying Vincey who asks Holly to raise his only child Leo, and that he give Leo a chest on the latter's twenty fifth birthday. Holly agrees.^[3]

Cast

Betty Blythe - Ayesha
Carlyle Blackwell - Leo Vincy/Kallikrates
Mary Odette - Ustane
Tom Reynolds - Job
Heinrich George - Horace Holly
Jerrold Robertshaw - Billali
Alexander Butler - Mahomet

References

^ "A FAMOUS NOVEL FILMED". The Advertiser. South Australia. 8 April 1926. p. 10. Retrieved 6 January 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
^ She at SilentEra
^ "'SHE!'". Call. No. 708. Western Australia. 28 May 1926. p. 7. Retrieved 6 January 2018 – via National Library of Australia.

External links

She at IMDb
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[1] "A FAMOUS NOVEL FILMED". The Advertiser. South Australia. 8 April 1926. p. 10. Retrieved 6 January 2018 – via National Library of Australia.

[2] She at SilentEra

[3] "'SHE!'". Call. No. 708. Western Australia. 28 May 1926. p. 7. Retrieved 6 January 2018 – via National Library of Australia.

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v t e H. Rider Haggard's She: A History of Adventure
Novels	She: A History of Adventure Ayesha, the Return of She She and Allan Wisdom's Daughter
Films	The Pillar of Fire (1899) She (1911) She (1916) The Hidden Valley (1916) She (1917) She (1925) She (1935) She (1965) The Vengeance of She (1968) She (1984)