Sat Nov 11, 2017 8:13 pm
While the 1903 version is very interesting (as is the Lubin version, issued the same year), I think the 1914 version is the most honest and likeliest the most accurate silent version of the stage show. A clean print is something to be hoped for, despite the use of the N-word and other issues that modern tastes will find, well, distasteful.
Next up: a cleaned-up version of The Jew of Malta .
Bob
New and vigorous impulses seem to me to be at work in it,[the cinema] and doubtless before long it will drop all slavish copying of the stage and strike out along fresh paths. -- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree