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	Theda Bara (right). Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Theda Bara [Iza Dobronowska], William E. Shay [Pierre Clemenceau], Stuart Holmes [Constantin Ritz], Frank Goldsmith [Duke Sergius], Mrs. Allan Walker [Marie Clemenceau], Little Jane Lee (Jane Lee) [Janet], Mrs. Cecil Raleigh (Saba Raleigh) [Countess Dobronowska], Sidney Shields [Madame Ritz]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation [A Theda Bara Super Production]. / Scenario by Herbert Brenon, from a play adaptation by Martha Woodrow of the novel L’Affaire Clemenceau by Alexandre Dumas fils. Cinematography by Philip E. Rosen (Phil Rosen). Presented by William Fox. / © 12 April 1915 by William Fox [LU4993]. © 19 April 1915 by William Fox [LP5969]. Released April 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA (in a reedited, retitled version) by Fox Film Corporation.

Drama.

Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Iza’s sinister beauty and its effect on the lives of two men form the main plot of “The Clemenceau Case.” Pierre, her husband, she casts off. Constantin Ritz leaves with his career as a talented sculptor blasted. In turn she toys with Ritz, but Pierre saves Ritz against himself. He allows himself, apparently, to fall once more under Iza’s spell. As she presses her false lips to Pierre’s he stabs her to the heart, just as Ritz enters. “I have saved you for your wife,” says Pierre calmly as he telephones for the police.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0719.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 8 May 2020.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0719 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.