Mother Machree (1928)
Note: this print runs 29 minutes against a recorded 75 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Belle Bennett, Neil Hamilton, Victor McLaglen, Eulalie Jensen, John Wayne, Aggie Herring, Robert Parrish, Ethel Clayton
Directed by John Ford
Mother Machree is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by John Ford that is based on the 1924 work The Story of Mother Machree by Rida Johnson Young about a poor Irish immigrant in America. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score, singing and sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process. Rida Johnson Young had invented Mother Machree in the stage show Barry of Ballymoore in 1910. John Wayne has a minor role in the film.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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