The Brass Bottle is a 1923 American silent fantasy comedy film produced and directed by Maurice Tourneur and distributed by First National Pictures. The original 1900 novel The Brass Bottle by Thomas Anstey Guthrie was produced as a Broadway play in 1910. A 1914 silent followed. Both silent versions are lost. A 1964 adaptation starred Tony Randall and Barbara Eden.
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Cast
Harry Myers as Horace Ventimore
Ernest Torrence as Fakresh-el-Aamash
Tully Marshall as Professor Hamilton
Clarissa Selwynne as Mrs. Hamilton
Ford Sterling as Rapkin
Aggie Herring as Mrs. Rapkin
Charlotte Merriam as Sylvia Hamilton
Edward Jobson as Samuel Wackerbath
Barbara La Marr as The Queen
Otis Harlan as Captain of the Guard
Hazel Keener
Julanne Johnston
Roy Coulson as One-eyed evil spirit (uncredited)
Preservation
With no prints of The Brass Bottle located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.