This film is presumed lost.

A story of marital infidelity, jealousy, revenge and the redemptive power of love.

King Leontes of Bohemia suspects his wife, Hermione, and his friend, Polixenes, of betraying him. When he forces Polixenes to flee for his life, Leontes sets in motion a chain of events that lead to death, a ferocious bear, an infant left in the snow, young love, and a statue coming to life. Written by Kathy Li

ulina, wife to Antigonus: The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

ung Shepherd: If I were not in love with Mopsa, thou shouldst take no money of me; but being enthralled as I am, it will also be the bondage of certain ribbons and gloves.

ulina, wife to Antigonus: If I prove honey-mouthed, let my tongue blister.

ung Shepherd: What manner of fellow was he that robbed you? tolycus: A fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with troll-my-dames. I knew him once a servant of the prince. I cannot tell, good sir, for which of his virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the court. ung Shepherd: His vices you would say. There's no virtue whipped out of the court. They cherish it to make it stay there, and yet it will no more but abide.

dy: Come, my gracious lord, shall I be your playfellow? millius, son of Leontes and Hermione: No, I'll none of you! dy: Why, my sweet lord? millius, son of Leontes and Hermione: You'll kiss me hard and speak to me as if I were a baby still. [turns to second lady] I love you better. cond Lady: And why so, my lord? millius, son of Leontes and Hermione: Not for because your brows are blacker. Yet black brows, they say, become some women best, so that there be not too much hair there, but in a semicircle, or a half moon made up with pen. cond Lady: Who tought this? millius, son of Leontes and Hermione: I learned it out of women's faces.

Adapted by Frank Dunlop (I) from his 1966 Edinburgh Festival stage production.