Kismet (1930 film)

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

Warner Bros. spared no expense in making this picture. They spent 600,000 in producing it and the extravagance of the film was noted by every reviewer. The film played in ten cities across the United States in the widescreen Vitascope 65mm version while the rest of the country which did not yet have theaters capable of playing widescreen films were provided with standard 35mm prints.The enormous amount of PreCode content especially in the sequences in the harem probably contributed to the films loss. ........

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