Mother Machree (1927)
No blarney - This is a Gem from the EMERALD ISLE!
75 min
Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her position is found out, the school expels Brian. Mrs. McHugh feels compelled to allow the school principal and his wife to adopt Brian. The widow McHugh becomes a housekeeper and raises her employer's daughter Edith, who grows up to fall in love with Brian McHugh.
- Release date
- December 19, 1927
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Belle Bennett as Mother Machree
- Neil Hamilton as Brian
- Philippe De Lacy as Brian - as a Child
- Pat Somerset as Bobby De Puyster
- Victor McLaglen as The Giant of Kilkenny
- Ted McNamara as The Harper of Wexford
- Eulalie Jensen as Miss Van Studdiford
- Constance Howard as Edith Cutting
- Billy Platt as The Dwarf of Munster
- Wallace MacDonald as Michael McHugh
Crew
- Rida Johnson Young · Writer
- Gertrude Orr · Writer
- Katherine Hilliker · Writer
- H.H. Caldwell · Writer
- Chester A. Lyons · Cinematographer
- H.H. Caldwell · Editor
- Katherine Hilliker · Editor