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An Enemy to the King
Directed by	Frederick A. Thomson
Screenplay by	Helmer Walton Bergman
Based on	dal lavoro teatrale di Robert N. Stephens
Starring	E.H. Sothern: Ernanton de Launay Edith Storey: Julie De Varion John S. Robertson (come John Robertson): Claude Le Chastre Frederick Lewis (come Fred Lewis): Gauillaume Montignac Brinsley Shaw: Enrico, visconte de Berguin Rowland Buckstone: Blaise Tripault Mildred Manning: Jeanotte Pierre Collosse (come Pierre Colosse): Rougin Charles Mussett (come Charles Muzitt): Enrico di Navarra Denton Vane: re Enrico III John Ardizoni (come Adrizonu): il duca di Guisa
Production company	Vitagraph Company of America
Release date	1916
Running time	60 min
Country	USA
Languages	Enemy to the King,An

An Enemy to the King is a silent film from 1916 directed by Frederick A. Thomson.

The screenplay is based on the play An Enemy to the King by Robert N. Stephens which was first performed on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre on 1 September 1896.

Plot

In sixteenth-century France, Julie de Varion is told that her father, a Huguenot sympathiser, may be freed if she helps to capture Ernanton De Launay, an enemy of the king. In a tavern Julie meets a man who promises to bring her to Ernanton, whom she claims she wishes to meet. In reality, the man in the tavern is Ernanton himself, who soon falls in love with Julie. He kills his own servant when the latter insists that the woman is a spy. In the end he discovers that Julie is working for the king, but she, at the moment of betraying him, refuses to hand him over to the king's men because she too has fallen in love. Ernanton follows her to the palace and gives himself up in order to save her father. When the Huguenots attack the palace, Julie's father is freed and Ernanton makes his escape.

Production

The film was produced by the Vitagraph Company of America.

Distribution

Distributed by Greater Vitagraph (V-L-S-E), the film opened in US cinemas on 26 November 1916.

External links

• Bristol Irish/An Enemy to the King at IMDb

[[Category:Films based on plays]] [[Category:Adventure films]] [[Category:American silent films]] [[Category:Historical films]]