Disraeli

About Disraeli

Disraeli is a 1916 British silent biographical film directed by Charles Calvert and Percy Nash and starring Dennis Eadie, Mary Jerrold and Cyril Raymond. The film was based on the 1911 play Disraeli by Louis N. Parker, which was adapted twice more, as a 1921 silent version and most famously in 1929, as an early sound film. It was made at Ealing Studios.

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When actor George Arliss who had made his name appearing in the play, wanted to make the 1921 version in America he acquired the rights from producer Arrigo Bocchi and oversaw the destruction of all copies of the original film.

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Synopsis

The mid-Victorian statesman Benjamin Disraeli manages to thwart the plans of Britain's rival Great Powers and gain control of the strategically important Suez Canal.

Cast

Dennis Eadie as Benjamin Disraeli

Mary Jerrold as Lady Beaconsfield

Cyril Raymond as Lord Deeford

Dorothy Bellew as Clarissa

Fred Morgan as Nigel Foljambe

Daisy Cordell as Mrs. Travers

Cecil Morton York as Duke of Glastonbury

Evelyn Harding as Duchess of Glastonbury

Arthur M. Cullin as Sir Michael Probert

A. B. Imeson as Meyers

Mrs. Henry Lytton as Queen Victoria

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Notable quotes

“I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.”
— Popanilla (1827) Ch. 7 referring to the Motto of "Vraibleusia".
“Amusement to an observing mind is study.”
— Part 1, Chapter 23.
“You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when Gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at that scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.”
— Speech in the House of Commons (30 August 1848)
“In a progressive country change is constant; and the great question is, not whether you should resist change which is inevitable, but whether that change should be carried out in deference to the manners, the customs, the laws, the traditions of the people, or in deference to abstract principles and arbitrary and general doctrines. The one is a national system; the other...is a philosophic system.”
— Speech on Reform Bill of 1867, Edinburgh, Scotland (29 October 1867); quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (1929), p. 291
“Nothing is going on, but everybody is afraid of something.”
— Ch. 2.
“Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.”
— Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, "Quotation".

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