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King Lear
(1916)
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The Thanhouser Film Corporation’s production of King Lear (1916) stars renown actor Frederick Warde as Lear, with support from director/actor Ernest C. Warde, Ina Hammer, Wayne Arey and Edith Diestal.

2007 TeleVista edition

King Lear (1916), black & white, 64 minutes, not rated.

TeleVista, no catalog number, UPC 0-29502-19164-1.
Windowboxed 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 6 chapter stops, keep case, $19.95.
DVD release date: 2 October 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This edition has been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other silent era Shakespeare films on DVD:
Othello (1922) with Duel Scene from Macbeth (1905) and The Taming of the Shrew (1908)
Richard III (1912)
Silent Shakespeare (1899-1911)

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