Le duel d’Hamlet
(1900) French
B&W : [?] 174 feet?
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: Sarah Bernhardt [Hamlet], Pierre Magnier [Laertes]

Produced by Clément-Maurice Gratioulet. From the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. / [?] 35mm spherical format? Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre sound-on-cylinder sound system. / Bernhardt’s film debut. The soundtrack was presented on Lioretographe sound cylinders. The film was distributed in France after 1907 by Urban Eclipse. The film was released in the USA (at 174 feet) by Kleine Optical Company in 1908; the film appears to not have been distributed with a soundtrack in the USA. / Full-sound film.

Drama: Historical.

Survival Status: Print exists in the Filmmuseum Berlin Deutsch Kinemathek film archive : A print may exist in the Cinémathèque Française film archive.

Keywords: Authors: William Shakespeare (1564?-1616) - Early sound film - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 14 June 2009.

References: Ball-Shakespeare pp. 64a, 386; Bardèche-History p. 45; Barry-Griffith p. 8; Card-Seductive p. 25; Geduld-Birth p. 53; Kerr-Silent p. 7; Menefee-Bernhardt pp. 89-90, 91, 92, 96-97, 151, 153; Shipman-Cinema p. 38; Thompson-Lost p. ix.