--- title: 'Kismet (1930)' type: 'film' director: 'John Francis Dillon' released: '1930-01-01' runtime_minutes: 90 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Fantasy' - 'Music' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/kismet-1930' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021029/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Kismet (1930) 1930 · 90 min · Drama, Fantasy, Music · United States ## Synopsis Kismet is a 1930 American pre-Code musical costume drama film photographed entirely in an early widescreen process using 65mm film that Warner Bros. Pictures called Vitascope. The film, now considered lost, was based on Edward Knoblock's play Kismet, and was previously filmed as a silent film in 1920 which also starred Otis Skinner. ## Credits - **Director:** [John Francis Dillon](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-francis-dillon) - **Screenplay:** [Howard Estabrook](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-estabrook) - **Original Music Composer:** [Edward Ward](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-ward) - **Producer:** [Robert North](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-north) - **Director of Photography:** [John F. Seitz](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-f-seitz) - **Editor:** [Alexander Hall](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-hall) ## Cast - [Ford Sterling](https://cinepixo.com/people/ford-sterling) - [David Manners](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-manners) - [Theodore von Eltz](https://cinepixo.com/people/theodore-von-eltz) - [Otto Hoffman](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-hoffman) - [Mary Duncan](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-duncan) - [Montagu Love](https://cinepixo.com/people/montagu-love) - [Sidney Blackmer](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-blackmer) - [Edmund Breese](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-breese) - [Otis Skinner](https://cinepixo.com/people/otis-skinner) - [Loretta Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/loretta-young) - [Blanche Friderici](https://cinepixo.com/people/blanche-friderici) - [John St. Polis](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-st-polis) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/kismet-1930 Film facts: Wikidata (Q371663); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.