- Richard III (1912 film)
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name = Richard III
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director =André Calmettes James Keane
producer =J. Stuart Blackton M.B. Dudley
writer = James KeaneWilliam Shakespeare
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starring =Robert Gemp
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distributor =States Rights Independent Exchanges
released =October 15 1912
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country =France United States
language = English
budget = $30,000 (estimated)
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imdb_id = 0002461"Richard III" (1912) is a 55-minute film starring
Frederick Warde as Richard III. The film, a French/U.S. coproduction, was produced by Film d'Art and released through the independentstates rights film distribution system. The film was directed by French film director André Calmettes, who had previously directed the films "The Assassination of the Duke of Guise " (1908) with a music score composed byCamille Saint-Saëns , "La Tosca " (1909) based on the play byVictorien Sardou , and "La Dame aux Camélias " (1910) withSarah Bernhardt . "Richard III" was adapted from the play byWilliam Shakespeare by playwright James Keane.In 1996, a pristine print of the film was found by a private collector and donated to the
American Film Institute . It is considered to be the earliest surviving Americanfeature film [IMDB and AFI websites ] .On June 26, 2001,
Kino International released the film onDVD , which includes a 17-minutedocumentary film "Rediscovering Richard: Looking Back on a Forgotten Classic".References
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