Let 'Er Go Gallegher was a 1928 silent crime comedy film directed by Elmer Clifton and starring Frank Coghlan Jr., Harrison Ford and Elinor Fair.[1][2] The film is based on the Gallegher character from American author Richard Harding Davis' 1891 publication Gallegher and Other Stories.[3] The film's sets were designed by the art director Stephen Goosson.
| Let 'Er Go Gallegher | |
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| Directed by | Elmer Clifton |
| Written by | Elliott J. Clawson John W. Krafft |
| Produced by | Ralph Block Cecil B. DeMille |
| Starring | Frank Coghlan Jr. Harrison Ford Elinor Fair |
| Cinematography | Lucien N. Andriot |
| Edited by | Harold McLernon |
Production company | DeMille Pictures Corporation |
| Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
Release date |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
In the story, Gallegher is a copy boy at a newspaper who become an investigator. The character was also adapted into a film in 1917.
Cast edit
- Frank Coghlan Jr. as John 'Let 'Er Go' Gallegher
- Harrison Ford as Henry Clay Callahan
- Elinor Fair as Clarissa Mahaffey
- Wade Boteler as McGinty
- E.H. Calvert as City Editor
- Ivan Lebedeff as Stephen B. Hade AKA Four Fingers Dan
- Morgan Brown as Prohibition Officer
References edit
- ^ "Let 'Er Go, Gallegher (1928)" – via www.rottentomatoes.com.
- ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
- ^ Davis, Richard Harding (October 28, 2014). Gallegher, and Other Stories. Read Books Ltd. ISBN 9781473396579 – via Google Books.
Bibliography edit
- Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
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