Boomerang Bill Explained

Boomerang Bill
Director:	Tom Terriss
Producer:	William Randolph Hearst (for Cosmopolitan Productions)
Starring:	Lionel Barrymore Marguerite Marsh
Cinematography:	Al Liguori
Distributor:	Paramount Pictures
Runtime:	6 reels; 5,489 feet
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

Boomerang Bill is an extant 1922 American silent crime melodrama film produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Paramount Pictures. Adapted from a Boston Blackie short story by Jack Boyle,^[1] it was directed by Tom Terriss and stars veteran actor Lionel Barrymore. It is preserved incomplete at the Library of Congress and George Eastman House.^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Cast

• Lionel Barrymore as Boomerang Bill
• Marguerite Marsh as Annie
• Margaret Seddon as Annie's Mother
• Frank Shannon as Terrence O'Malley
• Matthew Betz as Tony the Wop
• Charles Fang as Chinaman
• Harry Lee as Chinaman
• Miriam Battista as Chinese Girl
• Helen Kim as Chinese Girl

External links

• • • Period newspaper clipping Boomerang Bill
• Lionel Barrymore and Marguerite Marsh in a film scene (University of Washington, Sayre Collection)

Notes and References

1. Boyle . Jack . December 1920 . Boomerang Bill . . August 27, 2016 .
2. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BoomerangBill1922.html Progressive Silent Film List: Boomerang Bill
3. Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress page 20 by The American Film Institute, c.1978
4. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921–30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
5. http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=2959 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Boomerang Bill
6. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2485/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Boomerang Bill