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The Shepherd King

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Language
  
Silent

Director
  
J. Gordon Edwards

Country
  
United States

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Release date
  
November 25, 1923 (US) June 8, 1926 (Portugal)

Writer
  
Wright Lorimer (play), Arnold Reeves (play), Virginia Tracy

The Shepherd King is a 1923 American silent religious film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. 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.

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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
  • Ferruccio 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 Shepherd 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.

    References

    The Shepherd King Wikipedia
    The Shepherd King IMDb