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Belle Bennett and Victor McLaglen.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Mother Machree
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6807 feet
Directed by John Ford
Cast: Belle Bennett [Ellen McHugh], Neil Hamilton [Brian McHugh; also known as Brian Van Studdiford], Philippe de Lacy [Brian McHugh, as a child], Pat Somerset [Robert De Puyster], Victor McLaglen [Terence O’Dowd], Ted McNamara [Harpist of Wexford], John MacSweeney [the Irish priest], Eulalie Jensen [Rachel Van Studdiford], Constance Howard [Edith Cutting], Ethel Clayton [Mrs. Cutting], William Platt [Pips], Jacques Rollens [Signor Bellini], Rodney Hildebrand [Brian McHugh Sr.], Joyce Wirard [Edith Cutting, as a child], Robert Parrish [child], [?] Marion Morrison (John Wayne)?
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by Gertrude Orr, from the short story The Story of Mother Machree by Rida Johnson Young. Song “Mother Machree” by Chauncey Olcott and Ernest R. Ball (music) and Rida Johnson Young (lyrics). Assistant director, Edward O’Fearna. Photography (cinematography) by Chester Lyons. Film editors, Katharine Hilliker and H.H. Caldwell. Intertitles written by Katharine Hilliker and H.H. Caldwell. Music score by S.L. Rothafel and Erno Rapee. Presented by William Fox. / © 12 June 1927 by Fox Film Corporation [LP24071]. [?] Previewed? 22 January 1928. Premiered on 5 March 1928 at the Globe Theatre in New York, New York. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot in September 1926. John Wayne’s appearance is unbilled and apparently does not appear in surviving footage, and he is reputed to also have worked as a prop assistant and a goose herder. The film was rereleased 21 October 1928 with a Movietone synchronized music and sound effects soundtrack; the footage of Neil Hamilton singing the title song may have been shot exclusively for the sound film rerelease. / Silent film.
Drama: Society.
Survival status: Incomplete prints exist (reels one, two and five) in the Library of Congress film archive; and in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive (reels two, five and seven); reels three, four, six and seven are presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Irish - Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 10 January 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Best-Those pp. 56, 60; Eyman-Wayne p. 36; Gallagher-Ford pp. 36, 47, 49, 54, 56, 58; McGhee-Wayne p. 315; Sinclair-Ford pp. 39, 238 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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