May 26, 2025 and one hundred and eight years ago on this day in 1917, Motion Picture World reviewed and summarized the silent film, “The Lad and the Lion,” based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s novel of the same name.
“The Lad and the Lion” (1917) was the first film made of a Burroughs’ story and the Selig Polyscope Company paid ERB $100 per reel for this five-reeler. Despite his considerable efforts to get film companies interested in his stories, this was the only success he had until “Tarzan of the Apes” was filmed the next year. The Lad and the Lion had the distinction of having its premiere (May 14, 1917) coincide with the print release of the story in “All-Story Weekly.” The film story was loosely remade in 1937 under the title “The Lion Man.”
Details about the film “The Lad and the Lion,” the revies and several illustrations are located at:
The 100-word drabble for today is from that review written by George H. Shorey.
This is the story of a narrative romance, with a most unusual setting and one of the most remarkable animal characters we have ever seen. We cannot say that the dramatic pieces held us spellbound, nor can we say that the realistic leaps of the lion made us shiver, but we feel that audiences not inured to the tricks of the camera will perhaps get the real thrill intended. It is there, logically, The Chief reason it did not get us was that the action was too rapid, and to foreign to our sympathies to hold us to the spot.
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