Cardinal Wolsey (1912)

Directed by

Laurence Trimble, J. Stuart Blackton

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

9 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short silent film adaptation of a Shakespeare play. It tells the fall of a powerful cardinal in the court of King Henry VIII.

historicalsomberslow-pacedformalstageddramaticarchaic

What happens

Cardinal Wolsey is a 1912 silent short film drama directed by Laurence Trimble, written by and starring Hal Reid. It was based on the play Henry VIII by William Shakespeare. It was produced by the Vitagraph Company of America and distributed through the General Film Company. An incomplete copy of the film is preserved in the National Film and Television Archive, British Film Institute. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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