The Shame of Mary Boyle
(1929)
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The Shame of Mary Boyle
(1929)
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The Orator
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Maire O'Neill | ... |
Mrs. Maisie Madigan
(as Maire O'Neil)
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Edward Chapman | ... | |
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Sidney Morgan | ... | |
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Sara Allgood | ... | |
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Dave Morris | ... | |
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Kathleen O'Regan | ... | |
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John Longden | ... | |
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Dennis Wyndham | ... |
The Mobiliser
(as Denis Wyndham)
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Fred Schwartz | ... |
Mr. Kelly
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During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life forgetting what the most important values of are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds. Written by Claudio Sandrini <pulp99@geocities.com>
This is a very early sound movie; therefore, many of the technical aspects are very primitive, so you must use a bit of patience. But, some of the acting is top-notch, and of course, the play is a classic of the Irish stage. The two standouts as actors is the man who played the outlandish sponge and hanger-on, Jockster, and Sara Algood (sp?) always a dynamite character actor--as Juno, she shines. All in all, this Hitchcock adaption of the play is well done. "Juno and the Paycock" eventually goes in a direction that you would not expect, but in any event, the way in which it looks at Dublin's poor is rather unflinching.