The Little Irish Girl

The Little Irish Girl
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Directed byRoy Del Ruth
Written byDarryl F. Zanuck (adaptation)
Based on
"The Grifters"
by G. B. Lancaster
StarringDolores Costello
CinematographyH. Lyman Broening
Willard Van Enger
Edited byClarence Kolster
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • March 6, 1926 (1926-03-06) (Limited)
Running time
7 reels; 6,667 feet
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
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The Little Irish Girl is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros., directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Dolores Costello. It is based on the story The Grifters, written by Edith Joan Lyttleton.[1][2][3]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[4] a gang of "grifters" or crooks operating in San Francisco use Dot Walker, a beautiful young Irish woman, as a "decoy" in their confidence tricks. She "lands" Johnny, grandson of an elderly woman who comes to town to try to sell a hotel and a supposedly valuable mineral water well. The gang plans to swindle the old lady out of the property, but Granny, once a crook herself, proves too clever for them and beats them at their own game. Johnny weds Dot, who reforms.

Cast

Preservation

The Little Irish Girl is currently presumed lost.[5][6] In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.[7]

The Warner Bros. records of the film's negative have a notation, "Junked 12/27/48" (i.e., December 27, 1948). Warner Bros. destroyed many of its negatives in the late 1940s and 1950s due to nitrate film pre-1933 decomposition. Also, in February 1956, Jack Warner sold the rights to all of his pre-December 1949 films to Associated Artists Productions. In 1969, UA donated 16mm prints of some Warner Bros. films from outside the United States.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: The Little Irish Girl at silentera.com
  2. ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
  3. ↑ "The Little Irish Girl". afi.com. Retrieved April 11, 2026.
  4. ↑ Pardy, George T. (April 10, 1926), "Pre-Release Review of Features: The Little Irish Girl", Motion Picture News, 33 (15), New York City, New York: Motion Picture News, Inc.: 1618, retrieved April 18, 2023 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ↑ "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Little Irish Girl". memory.loc.gov. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved April 11, 2026. Cite error: Unknown parameter "loc" in <ref> tag; supported parameters are dir, follow, group, name (see the help page).
  6. ↑ Arne Anderson's Lost Film Files: The Lost films of Warner Brothers Pictures, Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files, online source
  7. ↑ "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. Retrieved April 11, 2026.
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