Hangman's House
Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien, to marry a man she doesn't love, Connaught O'Brien gives up hope of ever with her true love, Dermot McDermot. After her father dies and a hunted rebel leader returns to town, however, Connaught finds a renewed hope that the tides of oppression will shift and she might again find happiness. This silent romantic drama, set in Ireland, is the first film in which a then-unknown John Wayne is clearly visible.
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Title: Hangman's House Summary: "Citizen" Hogan, an exile Irish patriot, risks his life by returning to Ireland and helping a young couple. Directed by: John Ford Actors: June Collyer, Larry Kent, Victor McLaglen Production Company: Fox Film Corporation Release Date: 13 May 1928 (USA) Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1 'Citizen' Hogan is a Irish Republican patriot with a price on his head, serving in Algiers, where he is highly respected by his Foreign Legionaire comrades. After receiving a telegram, he asks permission to go back to Ireland to settle a matter involving family honor by killing D'Arcy, a fortune-hunting opportunist who has turned British informer. Back in Ireland Lord Justice O'Brien, who has the unenviable reputation of being a hanging judge and is haunted with self-doubt, is terminally ill and close to death. He tries to ensure his daughter Connaught's future welfare by coercing her to renounce her love for the upstanding but poor Dermot McDermot and marry the despicably unscrupulous but affluent D'Arcy, the man Hogan has returned to murder.
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- Director
- John Ford
- Starring
- Victor McLaglen, June Collyer, Earle Foxe, Hobart Bosworth, Larry Kent, Joseph Burke, Mary Gordon, Brian Desmond Hurst
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