The Shepherd King
| The Shepherd King | |
|---|---|
| File:Shepherd King poster.jpg Film poster | |
| Directed by | J. Gordon Edwards |
| Written by | Wright Lorimer (play) Arnold Reeves (play) Virginia Tracy (scenario) |
| Produced by | William Fox |
| Starring | Violet Mersereau |
| Cinematography | Benny Miggins |
| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
Release date | November 25, 1923 |
Running time | 9 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent film(English intertitles) |
The Shepherd King is a 1923 American silent religious film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation.[1][2] It is based on the 1904 Broadway play The Shepherd King by Wright Lorimer (1874-1911) and Arnold Reeves (1870-1935). Top Fox director J. Gordon Edwards shot the movie, a sumptuous production for sure, with a primarily Italian cast and he filmed in Middle Eastern countries such as Palestine, Jerusalem and Egypt.
The resulting movie was festooned with too many intertitles, had a nearly all foreign cast who most Americans didn't know and also came up against direct competition from Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923) which told much the same story.
Cast
- Violet Mersereau - Princess Michal
- Edy Darclea - Princess Herab
- Virginia Lucchetti - Adora, David's Adopted Sister
- Nerio Bernardi - David
- Guido Trento - Saul
- Ferruccio Biancini - Jonathan
- Sandro Salvini - Doeg (* billed Alessandro Salvini)
- Mariano Bottino - Adriel
- Samuel Balestra - Goliath
- Adriano Bocanera - Samuel
- Enzo De Felice - Ozem
- Eduardo Balsamo - Abimelech
- Americo De Giorgio - Omah
- Gordon McEdward - Egyptian Prisoner
- Ernesto Tranquili - Jesse, Father of David
See also
Preservation status
All prints of The Shepherd King appear to be lost as with many a Fox silent feature and if any survived past the introduction of sound in the late twenties, they most likely were destroyed in 1937 Fox Films vault fire in New Jersey. The Shepherd King is now considered a lost film.[3][4][5]
References
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films: 1921-30, by The American Film Institute, c.1971
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:The Shepherd King
- ^ The Shepherd King at silentera.com
- ^ The Shepherd King as produced on Broadway originally in 1904 at the Knickerbocker Theatre and subsequent revivals; IBDb.com
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:The Shepherd King
