SILENT ERA

King John (1899)

18992h 30mdir. Herbert Beerbohm TreeUnited Kingdomsilent filmdrama film

Note: this print runs 150 minutes against a recorded 5 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Directed by Herbert Beerbohm Tree

King John still

King John is the title by which the earliest known example of a film based on a play by William Shakespeare is commonly known.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.

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