The Colleen Bawn (1911 American film)

The Colleen Bawn
J. P. McGowan (left) and Sidney Olcott.
Directed by	Sidney Olcott
Written by	Gene Gauntier
Based on	play The Colleen Bawn by Dion Boucicault
Starring	Gene Gauntier J. P. McGowan Sidney Olcott
Cinematography	George K. Hollister
Production company	Kalem Company
Release date	October 16, 1911 (1911-10-16)
Running time	Three reels [1]
Country	United States
Language	English

The Colleen Bawn (1911)

The Colleen Bawn is a silent 1911 American romantic drama film based on the 1860 play of the same name. A secret marriage leads to murder. The story is based on the actual 1819 murder of 15-year-old Ellen Scanlan.

Prints of this film survive in the National Archives of Canada, and the George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection has one reel. ^[1]

Cast

• Gene Gauntier as Eily O'Connor, the "Colleen Bawn"
• J.P. McGowan as Hardress Cregan
• Sidney Olcott as Danny Mann
• Jack J. Clark as Myles na Copaleen
• Alice Hollister as Anne Chute
• Arthur Donaldson as Father Tom
• Robert G. Vignola as Mr. Corrigan
• Agnes Mapes as Mrs. Cregan
• Anna Clark as Sheelah

Production

The film was shot in Beaufort, County Kerry, Ireland, during the summer of 1911.^{[ citation needed ]}

References

1. "The Colleen Bawn". silentera.com. Retrieved May 22, 2014.

• Michel Derrien, Aux origines du cinéma irlandais: Sidney Olcott, le premier oeil, TIR 2013. ISBN   978-2-917681-20-6 (in French)
• Denis Condon, Touristic Work and Pleasure: The Kalem Company in Killarney
• Denis Condon, Limelight on the Colleen Bawn: Resisting Autoexoticism in Provincial Irish Picture Houses in the Early 1910s

External links

• The Colleen Bawn at IMDb
• Full restored film at YouTube
• (in French) The Colleen Bawn website dedicated to Sidney Olcott