Macbeth
(1916) American
B&W : Eight reels
Directed by John Emerson

Cast: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree [Macbeth], Constance Collier, Wilfred Lucas, Spottiswoode Aitken, Ralph Lewis, Mary Alden, Olga Grey, L. de Nowskowski, Bessie Buskirk, Jack Conway, Seymour Hastings, Carl Formes Jr., Jack Brammel, L. Tylden, Scott McKee, Jack Leonard, Francis Carpenter, Thelma Burns, Madge Dyer, Raymond Wells, George McKenzie, Chandler House, Monte Blue [Tree’s body double], [?] Erich von Stroheim?

Reliance Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by Triangle Film Corporation. / Production supervised by D.W. Griffith. Scenario by John Emerson, from the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Art director R. Ellis Wales. Assistant art director Erich von Stroheim. Cinematography by George W. Hill. / Premiere 4 June 1916 at the Majestic Theatre in Los Angeles, California. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Tree’s first American film. Monte Blue doubled for Tree in every shot where he wouldn’t be recognized.

Drama: Historical.

Survival Status: (unknown)

Keywords: Ambition - Authors: William Shakespeare - Crime: Murder - Death: Murder - Guilt - Kings - Insanity - Marriage - Murder - Nobility - Royalty - Scotland - Suicide - USA: California: Corona del Mar - USA: California: Newport Beach - Witches

Listing updated: 13 November 2004.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2696; Ball-Shakespeare pp. 149, 186, 224d, 225, 226, 229-235, 362-363, 364, 388; Bardèche-History p. 383; Everson-American p. 115; Lahue-Triangle pp. 134-135, 179, 200; Tarbox-Lost pp. 220, 227, 242, 252.