Disraeli (film)

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Disraeli
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.