The Shepherd King (1923)
The Shepherd King is a 1923 American silent film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. It is based on the 1904 Broadway play The Shepherd King by Wright Lorimer(1874-1911) and Arnold Reeves(1870-1935). Top Fox director J. Gordon Edwards shot the movie, a sumptuous production for sure, with a primarily Italian cast and he filmed in Middle-Eastern countries such as Palestine, Jerusalem and Egypt. The resulting movie was festooned with too many intertitles, had a nearly all foreign cast who most Americans didn't know and also came up against direct competition from Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments which told much of the same story. All prints of The Shephard King appear to be lost as with many a Fox silent feature and if any survived past the introduction of sound in the late twenties, they most likely went up in flames in 1937 New Jersey Fox fir. A lost film.
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