''Aladdin from Broadway'' is a 1917
silent adventure film
The adventure film is a broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different than the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality was found among historians Brian Taves and Ian Cameron in ...
directed by
William Wolbert
William Wolbert (1883–1918) was an American actor and film director of the silent era.Wlaschin p.26 He directed for Vitagraph Studios, Vitagraph and Universal Pictures before his career was cut short by his death.
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and starring
Edith Storey,
Antonio Moreno
Antonio Garrido Monteagudo (September 26, 1887 – February 15, 1967), better known as Antonio Moreno or Tony Moreno, was a Spanish-born American actor and film director of the silent film era and through the 1950s.
Early life and silent fil ...
and
Otto Lederer
Otto Lederer (May 17, 1886 – September 3, 1965) was a Czech-American film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1912 and 1933, most notably ''The Jazz Singer'', the first full-length film to have sound sequences, and the Laurel and Har ...
.
[Connelly p.7]
Cast
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Edith Storey as Faimeh
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Antonio Moreno
Antonio Garrido Monteagudo (September 26, 1887 – February 15, 1967), better known as Antonio Moreno or Tony Moreno, was a Spanish-born American actor and film director of the silent film era and through the 1950s.
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as Jack Stanton
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William Duncan as William Fitzgerald
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Otto Lederer
Otto Lederer (May 17, 1886 – September 3, 1965) was a Czech-American film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1912 and 1933, most notably ''The Jazz Singer'', the first full-length film to have sound sequences, and the Laurel and Har ...
as Amad
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Laura Winston
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as Light-of-Life
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George Holt as Sadi
References
Bibliography
* Robert B. Connelly. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998.
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1917 films
1917 adventure films
American silent feature films
Silent American adventure films
American black-and-white films
Vitagraph Studios films
Films directed by William Wolbert
1910s English-language films
1910s American films
English-language adventure films
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