''The Moonstone'' is a 1909 silent film produced by William Nicholas Selig and released by Selig Polyscope Company. This film has a great chance of being a lost film; no sources indicate if any copies have existed. It is also unknown who starred in this film or who directed it.

Film background

This film was based on the British three volume novel (a standard of the time in Britain and England to separate a novel in three volumes) '' The Moonstone'' published in 1868 and which is highly regarded as one of the first English language detective crime novels. This film was remade in

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; the oldest known version to exist. Other remakes were released in

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, 1972, and 1997.

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* 1909 films American silent short films Selig Polyscope Company films Films based on British novels Films based on works by Wilkie Collins Silent American drama films American black-and-white films 1909 drama films 1900s English-language films 1900s American films {{1900s-short-drama-film-stub