Disraeli

Disraeli is a 1929 film that was adapted by Julien Josephson and De Leon Anthony[?] from a play by Louis N. Parker[?]. The film was directed by Alfred E. Green[?].

The story is the biography of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, and stars George Arliss, Doris Lloyd[?], David Torrence[?], Joan Bennett[?] and Florence Arliss[?].

Arliss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Films with the same title were released in 1916 and 1921, the 1921 version also starring Arliss.

Disraeli is also the name of a four-part Masterpiece Theatre series, ©1978 but first broadcast in the U.S. in June 1980, about the great statesman. Written by David Butler, produced by Cecil Clarke, directed by Claude Whatham, it stars Ian McShane[?] (Disraeli), Mary Peach (Mary Anne), Rosemary Leach (Queen Victoria), and Anton Rodgers (George Bentick) and is available in a four-videotape set.