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Knocknagow
(1918) Ireland
B&W : Eight reels
Directed by Fred O’Donovan

Cast: Brian McGowan (Brian Magowan) [Mat Donovan, also known as ‘Mat the Thrasher’], Fred O’Donovan [Arthur O’Connor], Kathleen Murphy [Norah Lahy], Arthur Shields [Phil Lahy], J.M. Carre [Pender], Breffni O’Rourke (Brefni O'Rorke) [Billy Heffernan], Valentine Roberts [Father O’Carroll], Patrick O’Donnell [Barney Broderick, also known as ‘Wattletoes’], Dermot O’Dowd [Maurice Kearney], George Larchet [Arthur Lowe], Charles Power [Sir Garrett Butler], Nora Clancey [Mary Kearney], Miss Rooney [Nellie Donovan], Moria Breggni [Peg Brady], Cyril Cusack [Brian’s child], Alice Keating, Kathleen O’Connor, Micheál Mac Liammóir (Alfred Willmore)

Film Company of Ireland production; distributed by Film Company of Ireland. / Produced by James M. Sullivan. Scenario by N.F. Patton, from the novel Knocknagow by Charles J. Kickham [?] and the play The Homes of Tipperary by Charles J. Kickham? Cinematography by William Moser. / Premiered 30 January 1918 at Magner’s Cinema in Clonmel, Ireland. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Originally edited to nine reels, then cut to six reels for general release in the United Kingdom in May 1918. Cusack’s film debut.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the British Film Institute National Archive film archive [incomplete].

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 7 November 2022.

References: McIlroy-Ireland pp. 12-14, 15, 105, 158, 168 : Website-IMDb.

 
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