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The Green Goddess
(1923) United States of America
B&W : Ten reels
Directed by Sidney Olcott

Cast: George Arliss [the Rajah of Rukh], Alice Joyce [Lucilla Crespin], David Powell [Doctor Traherne], Harry T. Morey [Major Crespin], Jetta Goudal [Ayah], Ivan Simpson [Watkins], William Worthington [the high priest]

Distinctive Productions production; distributed by Goldwyn-Cosmopolitan Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Forrest Halsey, from the play The Green Goddess by William Archer. Cinematography by Harry Fishbeck. Music score arranged by Joseph Carl Breil. / © 17 September 1923 by Distinctive Productions [LP19418]. Premiered 14 August 1923 in New York, New York. Released 16 September 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] The film may have been rereleased in eight reels. Arliss remade this film in 1930.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 11 May 2018.

References: FilmYearBook-1926 p. 14; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 21, 78-80 : Photoplay-192306 p. 27 : Website-AFI : with additional information provided by Manish Patwari.

Home video: DVD.