Disraeli (film)
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Disraeli | |
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Directed by | Alfred E. Green |
Written by | Julien Josephson De Leon Anthony |
Starring | George Arliss Doris Lloyd David Torrence Joan Bennett |
Music by | Louis Silvers |
Cinematography | Lee Garmes |
Editing by | Hugh Wynn |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Running time | 90 min. |
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Disraeli is a 1929 film that was adapted by Julien Josephson and De Leon Anthony from a play by Louis N. Parker. The film was directed by Alfred E. Green.
The story is a highly fictionalized episode in the life of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, and stars George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence, Joan Bennett and Florence Arliss. It revolves around the British plan to buy the Suez Canal and the efforts of two spies to stop it.
Arliss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Films with the same title were released in 1916 and 1921, the 1921 version also starring Arliss.