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A Fool There Was
(1922) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6604 feet
Directed by Emmett J. Flynn

Cast: Estelle Taylor [Gilda Fontaine], Lewis Stone [John Schuyler], Irene Rich [Mrs. Schuyler], Muriel Dana [Muriel Schuyler], Marjorie Daw [Nell Winthrop], Mahlon Hamilton [Tom Morgan], Wallace MacDonald [Avery Parmelee], William V. Mong [Boggs], Harry Lonsdale [Parks]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by Bernard McConville, from an adaptation of the poem “The Vampire” by Rudyard Kipling and the play A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne. Cinematography by Lucien Andriot. Presented by William Fox. / © 10 September 1922 by Fox Film Corporation [LP18991]. Premiered circa 18 June 1922 in Los Angeles, California. Released 10 September 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was previously filmed as A Fool There Was (1915).

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 16 October 2011.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1412; AFI-F2 n. F2.1857; Sherwood-Best p. 165 : Website-AFI.