Romeo and Juliet (1916 Metro Pictures film)

Romeo and Juliet is a lost 1916 American silent film based on William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet. John W. Noble is credited as director and Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne star as the lovers. This film was produced in 1916, the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, and was released amongst many other commemorations of his works.

This film was produced and released in direct competition with another film, Romeo and Juliet produced by William Fox, starring Theda Bara, and released three days later. Bushman later claimed, in an interview, that he went to see the Theda Bara version and was shocked to see that Fox had added some intertitles from the Metro version.

Plot summary

Cast

Francis X. Bushman as Romeo

Beverly Bayne as Juliet

Horace Vinton as Escalus, Prince of Verona

John Davidson as Paris

Eric Hudson as Montague

Edmund Elton as Capulet

Leonard Grover as Old Man

Fritz Leiber, Sr. as Mercutio

Olav Skavlan as Benvolio

Lawson Butt as Tybalt

Robert Cummings as Friar Laurence

A. J. Herbert as Friar John

Edwin Boring as Balthasar

William Morris as Abraham

Joseph Dailey as Peter

References

External links

Bushman as Romeo on the front cover of Motion Picture Magazine

1916 films

American silent feature films

American films based on plays

Lost American films

1916 romantic drama films

American romantic drama films

American black-and-white films

Films based on Romeo and Juliet

Films directed by John W. Noble

1910s American films

Silent romantic drama films

Silent horror films

Silent American drama films