Mother Machree
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
John Ford
Belle Bennett
Neil Hamilton
Philippe De Lacy
Pat Somerset
Victor Mclaglen
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In an Irish village in 1899, Ellen McHugh's husband is killed in a storm. Convinced that America holds the best future for her son, Brian, she immigrates, only to face discouragement until Terrence O'Dowd induces her to join a sideshow, posing as a "half-woman." Brian is placed in a fashionable school, but when his mother's profession is discovered, the principal forces Ellen to surrender the boy legally into his care. She becomes a housekeeper in the Fifth Avenue home of the Cuttings and rears her employer's daughter, Edith. Years later, Edith and Brian meet and fall in love, on the eve of war; eventually the boy and his mother are reunited, and all ends happily.
Director
John Ford
Cast
Belle Bennett
Neil Hamilton
Philippe De Lacy
Pat Somerset
Victor Mclaglen
Ted Mcnamara
John Macsweeney
Eulalie Jensen
Constance Howard
Ethel Clayton
William Platt
Jacques Rollens
Rodney Hildebrand
Joyce Wirard
Robert Parrish
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
The Library of Congress has reels 1, 2 and 5, all that is known to survive of this film.
Production begun in September 1926 for a silent film, with release announced for December. It did not appear, and was instead released in 1928 with a sound track, including a synchronized version of the title song being sung.
What most likely was a silent version of the film was shown at the Astoria Theater in London in September 1927.
Announced cost of film: $750,000.
