''The Arab'' is a 1915 American
silent adventure film
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directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille (; August 12, 1881January 21, 1959) was an American film director, producer and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cine ...
.
Edgar Selwyn
Edgar Selwyn (October 20, 1875 – February 13, 1944) was a prominent figure in American theatre and film in the first half of the 20th century. An actor, playwright, theatre director, director and theatrical producer, producer on Broadway ( ...
wrote and starred in the Broadway play version of the story in 1911, and this film is based on that play. Selwyn reprises his role from his play. This film was refilmed by
Metro Pictures
Metro Pictures Corporation was a Film, motion picture production company founded in early 1915 in Jacksonville, Florida. It was a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company produced its films in New York, Los Angeles, and sometimes at leas ...
in 1924 as ''
The Arab''. The film is now
lost
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History
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.
[ - incorrectly listed as being in Gosfilmofond. It's the 1924 film in Gosfilmofond]The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Catalog: ''The Arab''
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Cast
* Edgar Selwyn
Edgar Selwyn (October 20, 1875 – February 13, 1944) was a prominent figure in American theatre and film in the first half of the 20th century. An actor, playwright, theatre director, director and theatrical producer, producer on Broadway ( ...
as Jamil
* Horace B. Carpenter
Horace B. Carpenter (January 31, 1875 – May 21, 1945) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He appeared in more than 330 films between 1914 and 1946. He also directed 15 films between 1925 and 1934. Born in Grand Rapids, ...
as The Sheik
* Milton Brown as Abdullah
* William Elmer
William Elmer (April 25, 1869 – February 24, 1945) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1913 and 1942. He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa and died in Hollywood, California. Elmer acted in ...
as Meshur (as Billy Elmer)
* Sydney Deane
Sydney Leslie Deane (1 March 1863 – 20 March 1934) was a first-class cricketer and entertainer, and the first Australian to appear in a Hollywood movie.
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Born in Balmain, Sydney, to Edward and Sophia, Deane was a prom ...
as Dr. Hilbert
* Gertrude Robinson
Gertrude Robinson (October 7, 1890 – March 19, 1962) was an American actress of the silent era.
Biography
She appeared in 164 films between 1908 and 1925. She was born in New York City and died in Hollywood, California. She was the fi ...
as Mary Hilbert
* J. Parks Jones
James Parks Jones (1890 – January 11, 1950) was an actor in many silent films in the United States. His roles included many leading and supporting roles over more than a decade.
He was born in Cincinnati.
Jones married Myrtle Gonzalez, a Latin ...
as Ibrahim (as Park Jones)
* Theodore Roberts
Theodore Roberts (October 8, 1861 – December 14, 1928) was an American film and stage actor.
Early life
Roberts was born in San Francisco, California. He was a cousin of the stage actress Florence Roberts. His choice of a career disapp ...
as Turkish Governor
* Raymond Hatton
Raymond William Hatton (July 7, 1887 – October 21, 1971) was an American film actor who appeared in almost 500 motion pictures.
Biography
Hatton was born in Red Oak, Iowa. His physician father steered him toward a career in medicine. Howev ...
as Mysterious Messenger
* Irvin S. Cobb as American Tourist
* Marjorie Daw as Village Girl
References
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1915 films
1915 adventure films
1915 lost films
American adventure films
American black-and-white films
American silent feature films
Films directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Lost American films
Lost adventure films
1910s American films
Silent adventure films
1910s English-language films
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