The Merchant of Venice

Also known as Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice is a 1916 British silent drama film directed by Walter West and starring Matheson Lang, Hutin Britton, Ernest Caselli. It is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice.

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Production

The film was made by Broadwest. The company hired the complete stage cast of the play and filmed at Walthamstow Studios using largely natural light. The film marked the screen debut of Matheson Lang who went on to become one of the leading British actors of the 1920s. It was not a success.

Cast

Matheson Lang as Shylock

Hutin Britton as Portia

Ernest Caselli as Lorenzo

Kathleen Hazel Jones as Jessica

George Morgan as Lancelot

Terence O'Brien as Tubal

George Skillan as Antonio

Joseph Tozer as Bassanio

Marguerite Westlake as Nerissa

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Also known as Merchant of Venice

Notable quotes

“Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them: and when you have them, they are not worth the search.”
— Bassanio, l. 114
“I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth.”
— Portia, l. 45
“Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves.”
— Shylock, l. 20
“I’ll take my leave of the Jew in the twinkling of an eye.”
— Launcelot Gobbo, l. 154
“I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!”
— Shylock, l. 75
“This night methinks is but the daylight sick.”
— Portia, l. 124

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