Kathleen Mavourneen (1906 film)

Kathleen Mavourneen is a 1906 silent short film by Edwin S. Porter, produced and distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company. It is based on the song “Kathleen Mavourneen” by Annie Crawford and Frederick Williams Nichols Crouch, which inspired the play by Dion Boucicault.

Plot

Irish villager Kathleen is a tenant of Captain Clearfield, who controls local judges and criminals. Her father owes Clearfield a large debt. Terence O'More saves the village from Clearfield, causing a large celebration.

Film historian Charles Musser writes of Porter's adaptation, "O'More not only rescues Kathleen from the villain but, through marriage, renews the family for another generation."[1]

Cast
  • Kitty O'Neil as Kathleen
  • Walter Griswoll as Terence O’More
  • H.L. Bascomb as Captain Clearfield
  • W.R. Floyd as Dugan
  • E.M. Leslie as David O’Connor
  • N.B. Clarke as Father O’Cassidy
  • J. McDovall as Danny O’Lavey
  • C.F. Seabert as Black Rody
  • D.R. Allen as Red Barney
  • D.J. McGinnis as Darby Doyle
  • W.F. Borroughs as Dennis O’Gaff

References
  1. Musser, Charles (1991). Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company. University of California Press, ISBN 9780520060807


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