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The Little Irish Girl
The Little Irish Girl
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Directed by	Roy Del Ruth
Written by	Darryl Zanuck (adaptation)
Based on	"The Grifters"; by G. B. Lancaster
Starring	Dolores Costello
Cinematography	H. Lyman Broening; Willard Van Enger
Edited by	Clarence Kolster
Production; company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	March 6, 1926 (Limited);
Running time	7 reels; 6,667 feet
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

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. Based on the story The Grifters, written by Edith Joan Lyttleton, it is considered to be a lost film.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Plot edit

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 edit

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 edit

This film is now lost. 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. No copies of The Little Irish Girl are known to exist.

References edit

^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Little Irish Girl at silentera.com
^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
^ Arne Anderson's Lost Film Files: The Lost films of Warner Brothers Pictures, Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files, online source
^ Pardy, George T. (April 10, 1926), "Pre-Release Review of Features: The Little Irish Girl", Motion Picture News, 33 (15), New York City, New York: Motion Picture News, Inc.: 1618, retrieved April 18, 2023 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.