Kismet

Name: Kismet
Director: John Francis Dillon
Released: 1930-01-01

1930 film by John Francis Dillon

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Released: 1930
Director: John Francis Dillon
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Screenwriter: Howard Estabrook
Producer: Robert North
Cast: Otis Skinner
, Loretta Young
, David Manners
, Sidney Blackmer
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Runtime: 90 min
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Genre: fantasy film
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, musical film
, drama film
Country of origin: United States

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

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Director of photography: John F. Seitz
Title: Kismet
Film editor: Alexander Hall
Movement: Pre-Code Hollywood
Color: black-and-white
color
Costume designer: Edward Stevenson
Based on: Kismet
State of transmission: lost

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