She (1925 film)
| She | |
|---|---|
%2C_Movie_Poster.jpg) She (1925), Movie Poster | |
| Directed by |
Leander de Cordova G. B. Samuelson |
| Produced by |
G. B. Samuelson Arthur A. Lee |
| Written by |
H. Rider Haggard (novel She) Walter Summers (scenario) H. Rider Haggard (intertitles) |
| Starring |
Betty Blythe Carlyle Blackwell |
| Music by | Louis Levy |
| Cinematography | Sydney Blythe |
| Distributed by | Lee-Bradford Corporation |
Release dates |
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Running time |
9 reels (8,250 feet) |
| Country |
Germany United Kingdom |
| Language |
Silent (German, Finnish and/or English intertitles) |
She is a 1925 British-German fantasy adventure film directed by Leander de Cordova and G.B. Samuelson and starring Betty Blythe, Carlyle Blackwell and Mary Odette. It was filmed in Berlin as a co-production, and based on H. Rider Haggard's novel of the same name. According to the opening credits, the intertitles were specially written for the film by Haggard himself; he died in 1925, the year the film was made.
The book has been a popular subject for filmmakers in the silent and sound eras, with at least five short film adaptations produced in 1908, 1911, 1916, 1917, and 1919 respectively.[1] The 1925 version was the first feature length adaptation, although it was trimmed from its original 98-minute running time down to 69 minutes for US release. It is the most faithful of the three feature-length adaptations to date and follows the action, characters and locations of the original novel closely.
Cast
- Betty Blythe - Ayesha
- Carlyle Blackwell - Leo Vincy/Kallikrates
- Mary Odette - Ustane
- Tom Reynolds - Job
- Heinrich George - Horace Holly
- Jerrold Robertshaw - Billali
- Alexander Butler - Mahomet