The Forbidden City

A Tale of a Forbidden City (Working title)

Directed by: Sidney Franklin, USA, 1918

USA, 1918
Szenenphoto aus The Forbidden City, © Talmadge Film Corporation


Cast and Credits

Production Norma Talmadge Film Corporation
Distribution Select Pictures Corporation
Producer Joseph M. Schenck
Director Sidney Franklin
Scenario Mary Murillo
Story George Scarborough
Director of Photography H. Lyman Broening
Edward Wynard
Art Director Willard M. Reineck [Technical director]
Cast Norma Talmadge [San San / Toy]
Thomas Meighan [John Worden]
E. Alyn Warren [Wong Li]
E. Alyn Warren [Mandarin]
L. Rogers Lytton [Chinese Emperor / Kaiser von China]
Reid Hamilton [Lieutenant Philip Halbert]
Reid Hamilton [Yuan-Loo]

Technical specifications
Locations or Studios: Select Studios, Bronx, New York, USA
Category: Feature Film
Technical Details: Format: 35 mm, 1:1,33 - Ratio: 1:1,33 - Black and White,Length: 62 minutes, 5000 feet, 5 reels
Sound System: silent
First Screening: October 6, 1918 in USA
US Copyright: October 06, 1918 - ©LP.13000
Survival Status: Prints of this picture exist [Archiv: Library of Congress (Washington), Cineteca Del Friuli (Gemona)]

General Information

The Forbidden City is a motion picture produced in the year 1918 as a USA production. The Film was directed by Sidney Franklin, with Norma Talmadge, Thomas Meighan, E. Alyn Warren, , L. Rogers Lytton, in the leading parts. We have currently no synopsis of this picture on file; There are no reviews of The Forbidden City available.

Bibliography - Exhibitor's Trade Review, 5 October 1918, pg 1453.
- Exhibitor's Trade Review, 19 October 1918, pg 1697.
- The Motion Picture News, 19 October 1918, pg 2607.
- The Motion Picture News, 24 January 1918, pg 895.
- The Moving Picture World, 19 October 1918, pg 445.
- The Moving Picture World, 26 October 1918, pg 549.
- New York Times, 7 October 1918, pg 11.
- The New York Dramatic Mirror, 19 October 1918, pg 590.
- Variety, 11 October 1918, pg 45.
- Wid's Film Daily, 13 October 1918, pp. 23-24.

Disclaimer
The information above does not purport to be exhaustive, but give the level of information to our database at the time of last update. All figures are best knowledge and belief researched to, legal claims arising from incorrect or missing information are expressly rejected.
Due to the current law in some countries can be held responsible person who addresses refers to having a criminal content spread may or criminal content and pages further refer, unless he closes clear from such liability. Our links below are researched to the best of my knowledge and belief, but we can not accept in any way for the content of these web pages and links from us any liability. We provide this explanation by analogy from all countries and all languages of. Quotations, if not otherwise marked, in the usual right to quote with identification of the sources added.
The copyright lies with the authors of these quotes - The Forbidden City (1918) - KinoTV Movie Database (M)