Friday 5 February 2010

Released 100 years ago today- 5 February 1910 (USA)

Twelfth Night (1910)

Stars: Julia Swayne Gordon, Charles Kent, Florence Turner
Directors: Eugene Mullin, Charles Kent
Writers: Eugene Mullin (scenario), William Shakespeare (play)
Genre: Short/Comedy/Drama
Production Co:Vitagraph Company of America
Time: 12 min
Rating: Passed
Status: Survived

Plot

When Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are shipwrecked and separated, Viola dresses in her brother's clothes and becomes a page in the palace of the Duke of Orsino. Thinking Viola is a boy, the Duke sends her with a message to Olivia, whom he loves. A series of complications begins when Olivia falls in love with the page 'boy'.