An Enemy to the King (film)

An Enemy to the King
Directed by	Frederick A. Thomson
Screenplay by	Helmer Walton Bergman
Based on	the play by Robert N. Stephens
Starring	E.H. Sothern Edith Storey John S. Robertson
Production company	Vitagraph Company of America
Release date	1916 (1916)
Running time	60 min
Country	United States

An Enemy to the King is a 1916 silent film directed by Frederick A. Thomson.

The screenplay is based on the play An Enemy to the King by Robert Neilson Stephens which was first performed on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre on 1 September 1896.

Plot

In sixteenth-century France, Julie de Varion is told that her father, a Huguenot sympathiser, may be freed if she helps to capture Ernanton De Launay, an enemy of the king. In a tavern Julie meets a man who promises to bring her to Ernanton. In reality, the man in the tavern is Ernanton himself, who soon falls in love with Julie. He kills his own servant when the latter insists that she is a spy. In the end he discovers that Julie is working for the king, but, at the moment of betraying him, she refuses to hand him over to the king's men because she too has fallen in love. Ernanton follows her to the palace and gives himself up in order to save her father. When the Huguenots attack the palace, Julie's father is freed and Ernanton makes his escape.

Production

The film was produced by the Vitagraph Company of America.

Distribution

Distributed by Greater Vitagraph (V-L-S-E, Incorporated), the film opened in US cinemas on 26 November 1916.

Cast

• E.H. Sothern: Ernanton de Launay
• Edith Storey: Julie De Varion
• John S. Robertson (as John Robertson): Claude Le Chastre
• Frederick Lewis (as Fred Lewis): Gauillaume Montignac
• Brinsley Shaw: Enrico, viscount de Berguin
• Rowland Buckstone: Blaise Tripault
• Mildred Manning: Jeanotte
• Pierre Collosse (as Pierre Colosse): Rougin
• Charles Mussett (as Charles Muzitt): Henry of Navarre
• Denton Vane: King Henry III
• John Ardizoni (as Adrizonu): the Duc de Guise

External links

• An Enemy to the King at IMDb
• An Enemy to the King at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films