The Brass Bottle (1923 film)

The Brass Bottle is a 1923 American silent fantasy comedy film produced and directed by Maurice Tourneur and distributed by First National Pictures. The original 1900 novel The Brass Bottle by Thomas Anstey Guthrie was produced as a Broadway play in 1910. A 1914 silent followed. Both silent versions are lost.^[1] A 1964 adaptation starred Tony Randall and Barbara Eden.^[2][3][4]

The Brass Bottle
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Directed by	Maurice Tourneur
Written by	Fred Myton (scenario)
Based on	The Brass Bottle by Thomas Anstey Guthrie
Produced by	Maurice Tourneur
Cinematography	Arthur L. Todd
Distributed by	First National Pictures (as Associated First National)
Release date	July 22, 1923 (1923-07-22)
Running time	6 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

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Cast

• Harry Myers as Horace Ventimore
• Ernest Torrence as Fakresh-el-Aamash
• Tully Marshall as Professor Hamilton
• Clarissa Selwynne as Mrs. Hamilton
• Ford Sterling as Rapkin
• Aggie Herring as Mrs. Rapkin
• Charlotte Merriam as Sylvia Hamilton
• Edward Jobson as Samuel Wackerbath
• Barbara La Marr as The Queen
• Otis Harlan as Captain of the Guard
• Hazel Keener
• Julanne Johnston
• Roy Coulson as One-eyed evil spirit (uncredited)

Preservation

With no prints of The Brass Bottle located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^[5]