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When Knights Were Bold is a 1908 silent film short directed by Wallace McCutcheon and produced by the Biograph Company. It is based on a very successful 1906 Broadway play of the same name written by Harriett Jay(under the alias Charles Marlowe) and starred a young Pauline Frederick, George Irving and veteran comic Francis Wilson. The film survives today and is noteworthy for the appearance of D. W. Griffith in an acting role before he started directing for Biograph.
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- ↑ "Biograph Films / The Zulu's Heart", advertisement, The Show World (Chicago), 10 October 1908, p. 18. Internet Archive, San Francisco. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ↑ "The Zulu's Heart". Silent Era. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
