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Tense Moments from Great Plays (1922)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1922
Running Times:
Format: black and white
Ratio:
Sound: silent

CREDITS

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PLOT SUMMARY

A series of short filmed adaptations of famous plays.

GENRE EPISODES

Esmeralda

PRODUCTION
Producer: H.B. Parkinson

SCRIPT
Novel: Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

CAST
Booth Conway (Quasimodo)
Sybil Thorndike (Esmeralda)

It's Never Too Late to Mend

PRODUCTION
Producer: H.B. Parkinson

SCRIPT
Play: Arthur Shirley

CAST
Russell Thorndike (Squire Meadows)
Ward McAllister (Tom Robinson)

Macbeth

PRODUCTION
Producer: H.B. Parkinson

SCRIPT
Play: William Shakespeare

CAST
Russell Thorndike (Macbeth)
Sybil Thorndike (Lady Macbeth)

KEYWORDS

book into film, play into film, hunchbacks, witches

 


Last Updated: 1 January, 2009

 


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