A Fool there was

The Vampire

Directed by: Frank Powell, USA, 1915

USA, 1915
Plakatmotiv A Fool there was, © Fox Vaudeville Company


Cast and Credits

Production William Fox Vaudeville Company
Producer William Fox [Presenter]
Frank Powell
Director Frank Powell
Scenario Roy L. McCardell
Frank Powell
Based on Rudyard Kipling [Poem 'Vampire']
Director of Photography George Schneiderman
Editor Hettie Grey Baker
Cast Theda Bara [The Vampire]
Runa Hodges [The Child]
Runa Hodges [The Wife [ Mrs. Kate Schuyler]]
Edward José [The Husband, John Schuyler]
May Allison [The wife's sister]
Clifford Bruce [The Friend, Tom]
Victor Benoit [Ein Opfer des Vampirs, Reginald Parmalee]
Minna Gale [The doctor's fiancée]
Frank Powell [The doctor]
Creighton Hale

Technical specifications
Category: Feature Film
Technical Details: Format: 35 mm, 1:1,33 - Ratio: 1:1,33 - Black and White,, 6000 feet, 6 reels
Sound System: silent
US Copyright: January 14, 1915 - ©LP.5970
Survival Status: Prints of this picture exist [Archiv: Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique (Bruxelles), Museum of Modern Art (New York), BFI - National Film And Television Archive (London), Centro Sperimentale del Cinema - Cineteca Nazionale (Roma)]
Szenenphoto aus A Fool there was, © Fox Vaudeville Company

Reviews in German: «Es ist schwierig, sich die Faszination dieses Films vorzustellen, die er zur Zeit seiner Entstehung auf die Zuschauer ausgeübt haben muss: die recht armselige optische Qualität der visionierten Kopie (DVD aus der Reihe "Ciné-Club Hollywood mit französischen Zwischentitel) erlaubt es dem Zuschauer kaum, dem Spiel der Schauspieler zu folgen.
Der Film basiert auf einem damals populären Theaterstück, das einen erfolgreichen Anwalt zeigt, der den Versuchungen eines Vamps erliegt, ihm Familie, Erfolg und Vermögen opfert, und schliesslich daran zu Grunde geht. Theda Bara verkörpert den männermordenden Vamp mit all der Theatralik einer körperlichen Gestensprache, die sie damals zum Star machte.

General Information

A Fool there was is a motion picture produced in the year 1915 as a USA production. The Film was directed by Frank Powell, with Theda Bara, Runa Hodges, , Edward José, May Allison, in the leading parts. We have currently no synopsis of this picture on file;

Bibliography - Exhibitor's Trade Review, 22 June 1918, pg 197.
- Exhibitor's Trade Review, 29 June 1918, pg 320.
- Motography, 23 January 1915, pg 134, 151
- The Motion Picture News, 10 July 1915, pg 327.
- The Motion Picture News, 17 April 1915, pg 5.
- The Motion Picture News, 22 June 1918, pg 3741.
- The Moving Picture World, 30 January 1915, pg 677.
- The Moving Picture World, 22 June 1918, pg 1756.
- The Moving Picture World, 13 July 1918, pg 253.
- The New York Dramatic Mirror, 20 January 1915, pg 31.
- Variety, 12 March 1915, pg 24.

Unter anderem wurde der Film bei folgenden Filmfestivals aufgeführt:

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