The Shepherd King

The Shepherd King
Directed by	J. Gordon Edwards
Produced by	William Fox
Written by	Wright Lorimer (play) Arnold Reeves (play) Virginia Tracy (scenario)
Starring	Violet Mersereau
Cinematography	Benny Miggins
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release dates	November 25, 1923 (US) June 8, 1926 (Portugal)
Running time	9 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent

The Shepherd King is a 1923 American silent 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
Ferrucio 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

Preservation status

All prints of The Shephard 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

External links

J. Gordon Edwards

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Screenwriter	Blindness of Devotion (1915) A Wife's Sacrifice (1916) The She-Devil (1918) The Queen of Sheba (1921)

Producer	A Daughter of the Gods (1916)

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