Lily of Killarney (1929 film) explained

Lily of Killarney
Starring:	Cecil Landau Barbara Gott Edward O'Neill Dennis Wyndham
Studio:	British International Pictures
Distributor:	Wardour Films
Runtime:	6,100 feet^[1]
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	Silent English intertitles

Lily of Killarney is a 1929 British silent drama film directed by George Ridgwell and starring Cecil Landau, Barbara Gott and Dennis Wyndham. The film is based on the play by Dion Boucicault, The Colleen Bawn, and is set in the Irish town of Killarney in the nineteenth century.^[2]

Plot

A poor aristocrat hires a dwarf to drown his secret wife so he may marry an heiress.

Cast

• Cecil Landau as Hardress Cregan
• Barbara Gott as Sheelah
• Edward O'Neill as Corrigan
• Gillian Dean as Ann Chute
• Pamela Parr as Eily O'Connor
• Wilfred Shine as Father Tom
• Henry Wilson as Danny Mann
• Dennis Wyndham as Myles-na-Coppaleen

References

1. Low p.398
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20090116224225/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/63371 BFI.org

Bibliography

• Low, Rachel. The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929. Routledge, 1997.