The Little Irish Girl
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by G. B. Lancaster
| The Little Irish Girl | |
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| Directed by | Roy Del Ruth |
| Written by | Darryl F. Zanuck (adaptation) |
| Based on | "The Grifters" by G. B. Lancaster |
| Starring | Dolores Costello |
| Cinematography | H. Lyman Broening Willard Van Enger |
| Edited by | Clarence Kolster |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 7 reels; 6,667 feet |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
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The Little Irish Girl is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros., directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Dolores Costello. It is based on the story The Grifters, written by Edith Joan Lyttleton.[1][2][3]
As described in a film magazine review,[4] a gang of "grifters" or crooks operating in San Francisco use Dot Walker, a beautiful young Irish woman, as a "decoy" in their confidence tricks. She "lands" Johnny, grandson of an elderly woman who comes to town to try and sell a hotel and a supposedly valuable mineral water well. The gang plans to swindle the old lady out of the property, but Granny, once a crook herself, proves too clever for them and beats them at their own game. Johnny weds Dot, who reforms.
Cast
- Dolores Costello as Dot Walker
- John Harron as Johnny
- Matthew Betz as Jerry Crawford
- Lee Moran as Mr. Nelson
- Gertrude Claire as Granny
- Henry A. Barrows as Bankroll Charlie
- Dot Farley as Gertie
- Joseph J. Dowling as Captain Dugan
Preservation
The Little Irish Girl is currently presumed lost.[5][6] In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.[7]
The Warner Bros. records of the film's negative have a notation, "Junked 12/27/48" (i.e., December 27, 1948). Warner Bros. destroyed many of its negatives in the late 1940s and 1950s due to nitrate film pre-1933 decomposition. Also, in February 1956, Jack Warner sold the rights to all of his pre-December 1949 films to Associated Artists Productions. In 1969, UA donated 16mm prints of some Warner Bros. films from outside the United States.[citation needed]
