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The Shamrock Handicap
(1926) American
B&W : Six reels / 5685 feet
Directed by John Ford

Cast: Janet Gaynor [Sheila Gaffney], Leslie Fenton [Neil Ross], J. Farrell MacDonald [Dennis O’Shea], Louis Payne [Sir Miles Gaffney], Claire McDowell [Molly O’Shea], Willard Louis [Martin Finch], Andy Clark [Chesty Morgan], Georgie Harris [Benny Ginsberg], Ely Reynolds [Puss], Thomas Delmar [Michael], Brandon Hurst [the procurer]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by John Stone, from a screen story by Peter Bernard Kyne. Assistant director, Edward O’Fearna. Cinematography by George Schneiderman. Intertitles by Elizabeth Pickett. Presented by William Fox. / © 26 April 1926 by Fox Film Corporation [LP22716]. Released 2 May 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Ford’s first film with an Irish theme.

Drama: Romance.

Survival Status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Listing updated: 1 April 2009.

References: Gallagher-Ford pp. 34, 35, 56, 86, 467; McIlroy-Ireland pp. 158, 180-181; Sinclair-Ford pp. 40, 236-237 : Website-AFI.

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