Kismet (1930 film)

Kismet
Directed byJohn Francis Dillon
Written byHoward Estabrook
Based onKismet
1911 play
by Edward Knoblock
Produced byRobert North
StarringOtis Skinner
Loretta Young
David Manners
Sidney Blackmer
CinematographyJohn F. Seitz
Edited byAlexander Hall
Music byLeon Rosebrook
Edward Ward
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Release date
  • October 30, 1930 (1930-10-30)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$611,000[1]
Box office$462,000[1]

Kismet is a 1930 American pre-Code costume drama film photographed entirely in an early widescreen process using 65mm film that Warner Bros. called Vitascope. The film, now considered lost,[2] was based on Edward Knoblock's play Kismet, and was previously filmed as a silent film in 1920 which also starred Otis Skinner.

  1. ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 11 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  2. ^ "Kismet". Deutsche Kinemathek. Retrieved March 23, 2013.