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The Blue Eagle
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6200 feet
Directed by John Ford
Cast: George O’Brien [George Darcy], Janet Gaynor [Rose Kelly], William Russell [Big Tim Ryan], Robert Edeson [Chaplain ‘Father Joe’ O’Regan], David Butler [Nick ‘Dizzy’ Galvani], Phillip Ford (Phil Ford) [‘Limpy’ Darcy], Ralph Sipperly [Slats ‘Dip’ Mulligan], Margaret Livingston [Mary Rohan], Jerry Madden [Baby Tom], Lew Short [Sergeant Kelly, Rose’s father]; Harry Tenbrook [Bascom, a stoker], Charles Sullivan [the sailor giving George boxing gloves], Jack Herrick [the ‘On Da Nose’ sailor], Jack Pennick [a sailor]
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation [John Ford Production]. / Executive producer, William Fox. Produced by John Ford. Scenario by L.G. Rigby (George Rigby), from the short story “The Lord’s Referee” by Gerald Beaumont. Assistant director, Edward O’Fearna. Photographed (cinematography) by George Schneiderman + [Arthur Edeson]. Titles (intertitles written) by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Presented by William Fox. / © 12 September 1926 by Fox Film Corporation [LP23122]. Released 12 September 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Action.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Národní filmový archiv film archive [35mm preservation positive]; in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm restoration positive (assembled from various surviving prints)]; and in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm preservation positive (incomplete, with some missing footage in reels 2 through 7, struck 1975), 35mm preservation positive [incomplete (struck 1997)] and (AFI collection) [16mm reduction positive (struck 1970)].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Crime: Smuggling - Sailors - U.S. Navy
Listing updated: 7 December 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Sinclair-Ford pp. 40, 237 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Tag Gallagher.
Home video: DVD.
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