She (1925) | Directed by Leander de Cordova - Full Movie

In Africa an explorer is the reincarnated lover of the 2,000-year-old White Queen.

She is a 1925 British-German fantasy adventure film made by Reciprocity Films, co-directed by Leander de Cordova and G. B. Samuelson, and starring Betty Blythe, Carlyle Blackwell, and Mary Odette. It was filmed in Berlin by a British film company as a co-production, and based on H. Rider Haggard's 1887 novel of the same name. According to the opening credits, the intertitles were specially written for the film by Haggard himself; he died in 1925, the year the film was made, and never got to see the finished film. The film still exists in its complete form today.

The book has been a popular subject for filmmakers in the silent and sound eras, with at least five short silent film adaptations produced in 1908, 1911, 1916, 1917, and 1919 respectively. The 1925 version was the first feature-length adaptation, although it was trimmed from its original 95-minute running time down to 69 minutes for US release (it was only released in the US by the Lee-Bradford Corporation in 1926). (A sound version was made in 1935 by RKO Pictures, and again in 1965 by Hammer Films of England.)

Directed by: Leander de Cordova, G. B. Samuelson
Written by: Walter Summers (scenario), H. Rider Haggard (intertitles)
Based on: She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard
Produced by: G. B. Samuelson, Arthur A. Lee
Starring: Betty Blythe, Carlyle Blackwell
Cinematography: Sydney Blythe
Music by: Louis Levy
Distributed by: Lee-Bradford Corporation
Release date: 1925 (England), 1926 (US edited version)
Running time: 9 reels (8,250 feet)
Countries: Germany, United Kingdom
Language: Silent (English intertitles)