Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player

1916 0h 50m EN

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10.0

MASTERPIECE

★10.0TMDB · 1

Drama

Synopsis

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Unable to agree on the man responsible for the plays commonly attributed to William Shakespeare, Miss Gray, who favors Francis Bacon, and Lieutenant Stanton, who accepts Shakespeare as the author, break off their engagement. Stanton then arranges to be transferred to the Mexican border, and while fighting there is badly wounded. When she hears the news about Stanton's condition, Miss Gray faints, and then dreams that she has been transported to Elizabethan times. Then, after Bacon falls in love with her, she discovers his obsessive jealousy of Shakespeare, and learns that he has bribed a courtier to accuse him of stealing Bacon's plays. As a result, when Miss Gray wakes up, she realizes that she has championed the wrong poet, and so she immediately is reconciled with Stanton, who soon recovers from his wound.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Florence La Badie
Miss Gray
Robert Vaughn
Lieutenant Stanton
Lawrence Swinburne
William Shakespeare
Robert Whittier
Francis Bacon

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Frederick Sullivan
Languages: No Language
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Tight 50-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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110 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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CAST

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Florence La Badie and Robert Vaughn and Lawrence Swinburne carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0163095 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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WILD

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Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Frederick Sullivan directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in No Language.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 50-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2110 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Florence La Badie and Robert Vaughn and Lawrence Swinburne carry the top of the cast.
5IMDB entry: tt0163095 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.