Lily of Killarney (1929 film)

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]

Lily of Killarney
Directed byGeorge Ridgwell
Written byDion Boucicault (play)
George Ridgwell
StarringCecil Landau
Barbara Gott
Edward O'Neill
Dennis Wyndham
Production
company
Distributed byWardour Films
Release date
  • February 1929 (1929-02)
Running time
6,100 feet[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Plot edit

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

Cast edit

References edit

  1. ^ Low p.398
  2. ^ BFI.org

Bibliography edit

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

External links edit

Lily of Killarney at IMDb