Hogan's Alley (film)

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Hogan's Alley
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Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Written by Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring Monte Blue
Patsy Ruth Miller
Cinematography Charles Van Enger
Edited by Clarence Kolster
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • December 12, 1925 (1925-12-12)
Running time
7 reels
(6,370 feet)
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Hogan's Alley is a 1925 American silent comedy film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It was an early directing assignment for Roy Del Ruth and starred Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, and Ben Turpin. This film is a precursor to the silent film One Round Hogan , a later Monte Blue boxing vehicle. [1] [2]

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Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine, [3] Patsy (Miller) is the scrappy little daughter of an ignorant lazy Irishman (Louis) who lives in Hogan's Alley. Her sweetheart Lefty O'Brien (Blue) is a prize-fighter, but this does not suit her father who wants her to marry a rich man. Lefty is arrested when his opponent in the fight fails to regain consciousness. Patsy is hurt and Lefty calls Dr. Franklin (Barrie), a swell doctor who takes a shine to Patsy and invites her and her father to his lodge. He proves to be a villain who attempts to sweep her off her feet. Lefty follows their train but his car is wrecked by the locomotive. With Patsy now on a runaway train, Lefty hires an airplane and transfers from it to the train, knocks out the villain, and stops the engine just before it runs into a landslide.

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Preservation status

Hogan's Alley survives in an incomplete or abridged version in the French archive Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée in Fort de Bois-d'Arcy. [4]

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References

  1. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
  2. Hogan's Alley at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Warner Brothers Pictures Archived December 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  3. Sewell, Charles S. (December 5, 1925). "Through the Box Office Window: Hogan's Alley; Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller in Film that Has Wide Variety of Audience Appeal". The Moving Picture World. New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co. 77 (5): 482. Retrieved October 16, 2021.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  4. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Hogan's Alley