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The Spanish Jade
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Wilfred Lucas

Cast: Betty Bellairs [Manuela], Wilfred Lucas [Osmund Manvers], Nigel de Brulier [Don Luis], Arthur Tavares [Don Bartolome], Frank Lanning [Tormillo], Howard Davies [Gil Perez], Lloyd Ingraham [Sebastian], Charles de Roche

Fiction Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Louis Joseph Vance, from the novel The Spanish Jade by Maurice Hewlett. Set decoration by John Coakley. Assistant director, James F. O’Shea. Cinematography by E.J. Vallejo. / Released 11 April 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Fiction Pictures’ first production. The novel was subsequently filmed as The Spanish Jade (1922).

Drama: Historical.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 4 December 2023.

References: Keylin-NYTimes p. 199 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.