The Shamrock Handicap
{{short description|1926 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = The Shamrock Handicap
| image = Shamrock Handicap lobby card.jpg
| caption = Lobby card
| director = John Ford
| producer = John Ford
| writer = Peter B. Kyne
John Stone
Elizabeth Pickett (titles)
| starring = Janet Gaynor
Leslie Fenton
| cinematography = George Schneiderman
| editing =
| distributor = Fox Film Corporation
| released = {{film date|df=yes|1926|5|2}}
| runtime = 66 minutes (22.9 frame/s)
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
The Shamrock Handicap is a 1926 American romance film directed by John Ford.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/ShamrockHandicap1926.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: The Shamrock Handicap |access-date=March 9, 2008|work=silentera.com}}
Plot
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As described in a film magazine review,{{cite journal |last= |first= |title=The Shamrock Handicap |journal=The Film Daily |volume=36 |issue=27 |date=May 6, 1926 |page=6 |url=https://archive.org/details/filmdaily3536newy/page/1228/mode/1up |publisher=Wid's Films and Film Folks, Inc. |location=New York City |access-date=20 October 2023}} {{Source-attribution}} young Neil Ross bids good bye to Sheila and sails to America with Finch, who promises to make him a famous jockey. Neil is injured in his first race and is partially paralyzed. Sheila and her father, now bankrupt, come to America and learn of Neil's sad plight. Rosaleen, an Irish filly and the last of Sheila's father's prize string, is entered in the big handicap and Neil is heartbroken because he cannot ride her. At the last minute before the race, the scheduled jockey is injured. Neil jumps into the saddle, rides Rosaleen to victory, curing his paralysis at the same time. With the winnings, they all sail back to Ireland.
Cast
- Janet Gaynor as Lady Sheila O'Hara
- Leslie Fenton as Neil Ross
- Willard Louis as Orville Finch
- J. Farrell MacDonald as Cornelius Emmet Sarsfield "Con" O'Shea
- Claire McDowell as Molly O'Shea
- Louis Payne as Sir Miles O'Hara
- George Harris as Jockey Bennie Ginsburg (credited as Georgie Harris)
- Andy Clark as "Chesty" Morgan
- Ely Reynolds as Virus Cakes
- Thomas Delmar as Michaels (uncredited)
- Bill Elliott as Well-Wishing Villager (uncredited)
- Brandon Hurst as The Procurer of Taxes (uncredited)
- Eric Mayne as Doctor (uncredited)
Preservation
Prints of the film exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive and Cinematheque Royale de Belgique.{{Cite AV media |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.771/default.html |title=The Shamrock Handicap |date= |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |type=Motion picture |publisher=American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog |access-date=2024-04-09 |via=The Library of Congress}}
See also
References
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External links
{{commons category|The Shamrock Handicap}}
- {{IMDb title|id=0017374|title=The Shamrock Handicap}}
- {{Youtube|nAZNT6LrMH0|The Shamrock Handicap}} (restored MOMA print)
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{{Peter B. Kyne}}
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Category:American silent feature films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by John Ford
Category:American romance films
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