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An Enemy to the King
Directed byFrederick A. Thomson
Screenplay byHelmer Walton Bergman
Based ondal lavoro teatrale di Robert N. Stephens
StarringE.H. Sothern: Ernanton de Launay

Edith Storey: Julie De Varion John S. Robertson (come John Robertson): Claude Le Chastre Frederick Lewis (come Fred Lewis): Gauillaume Montignac Brinsley Shaw: Enrico, visconte de Berguin Rowland Buckstone: Blaise Tripault Mildred Manning: Jeanotte Pierre Collosse (come Pierre Colosse): Rougin Charles Mussett (come Charles Muzitt): Enrico di Navarra Denton Vane: re Enrico III

John Ardizoni (come Adrizonu): il duca di Guisa
Production
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Release date
1916
Running time
60 min
CountryUSA
LanguagesEnemy to the King,An

An Enemy to the King is a silent film from 1916 directed by Frederick A. Thomson.

The screenplay is based on the play An Enemy to the King by Robert N. Stephens which was first performed on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre on 1 September 1896.[1]

Plot

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In sixteenth-century France, Julie de Varion is told that her father, a Huguenot sympathiser, may be freed if she helps to capture Ernanton De Launay, an enemy of the king. In a tavern Julie meets a man who promises to bring her to Ernanton, whom she claims she wishes to meet. In reality, the man in the tavern is Ernanton himself, who soon falls in love with Julie. He kills his own servant when the latter insists that the woman is a spy. In the end he discovers that Julie is working for the king, but she, at the moment of betraying him, refuses to hand him over to the king's men because she too has fallen in love. Ernanton follows her to the palace and gives himself up in order to save her father. When the Huguenots attack the palace, Julie's father is freed and Ernanton makes his escape.

Production

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The film was produced by the Vitagraph Company of America.

Distribution

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Distributed by Greater Vitagraph (V-L-S-E), the film opened in US cinemas on 26 November 1916.

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[[Category:Films based on plays]] [[Category:Adventure films]] [[Category:American silent films]] [[Category:Historical films]]