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Alas! Poor Yorick!
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Colin Campbell

Cast: John Lancaster, Wheeler Oakman, Thomas Santschi (Tom Santschi), Lillian Hayward, Hobart Bosworth, Frank Clark, Roscoe Arbuckle

The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Colin Campbell. / © 17 April 1913 by The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated. Released 21 April 1913; in a split-reel with Canton, China (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Thought to be Arbuckle’s first screen appearance dressed as a woman.

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 13 December 2008.

References: Ball-Shakespeare pp. 163, 342, 385; Edmonds-Arbuckle pp. 41, 244; Katchmer-Eighty p. 863; Lahue-Selig p. 146.