The story is the biography of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, and stars George Arliss, Doris Lloyd[?], David Torrence[?], Joan Bennett[?] and Florence Arliss[?].
Arliss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Films with the same title were released in 1916 and 1921, the 1921 version also starring Arliss.
Disraeli is also the name of a four-part Masterpiece Theatre series, ©1978 but first broadcast in the U.S. in June 1980, about the great statesman. Written by David Butler, produced by Cecil Clarke, directed by Claude Whatham, it stars Ian McShane[?] (Disraeli), Mary Peach (Mary Anne), Rosemary Leach (Queen Victoria), and Anton Rodgers (George Bentick) and is available in a four-videotape set.
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