Lily of Killarney (1929 film)

Lily of Killarney is a 1929 British 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
Running time
6,100 feet[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageSilent
English intertitles

Plot

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

Cast

References

  1. Low p.398
  2. BFI.org

Bibliography

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

Lily of Killarney at IMDb

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