Boomerang Bill

Boomerang Bill
Lionel Barrymore and Miriam Battista in Boomerang Bill
Directed by	Tom Terriss
Written by	Tom Terriss (scenario)
Based on	"Boomerang Bill" by Jack Boyle
Produced by	William Randolph Hearst (for Cosmopolitan Productions)
Starring	Lionel Barrymore Marguerite Marsh
Cinematography	Al Liguori
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	February 12, 1922 (1922-02-12)
Running time	6 reels; 5,489 feet
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Lionel Barrymore and Marguerite Marsh..

Boomerang Bill is an extant 1922 American silent crime melodrama film produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Paramount Pictures. Adapted from a Boston Blackie short story by Jack Boyle, ^[1] it was directed by Tom Terriss and stars veteran actor Lionel Barrymore. It is preserved incomplete at the Library of Congress and George Eastman House. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Cast

• Lionel Barrymore as Boomerang Bill
• Marguerite Marsh as Annie
• Margaret Seddon as Annie's Mother
• Frank Shannon as Terrence O'Malley
• Matthew Betz as Tony the Wop
• Charles Fang as Chinaman
• Harry Lee as Chinaman
• Miriam Battista as Chinese Girl
• Helen Kim as Chinese Girl

References

1. Boyle, Jack (December 1920). "Boomerang Bill". Cosmopolitan . Retrieved August 27, 2016.
2. Progressive Silent Film List: Boomerang Bill at silentera.com
3. Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress page 20 by The American Film Institute, c.1978
4. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921–30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
5. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Boomerang Bill
6. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Boomerang Bill

External links

• Boomerang Bill at IMDb
• Period newspaper clipping Boomerang Bill
• Lionel Barrymore and Marguerite Marsh in a film scene (University of Washington, Sayre Collection)