Let 'Er Go Gallegher

1928 silent film by Elmer Clifton

  • January 15, 1928 (1928-01-15)
Running time
60 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Let 'Er Go Gallegher was a 1928 silent crime comedy film directed by Elmer Clifton and starring Frank Coghlan Jr., Harrison Ford and Elinor Fair.[1][2] The film is based on the Gallegher character from American author Richard Harding Davis' 1891 publication Gallegher and Other Stories.[3] The film's sets were designed by the art director Stephen Goosson.

In the story, Gallegher is a copy boy at a newspaper who become an investigator. The character was also adapted into a film in 1917.

The full movie.

Cast

  • Frank Coghlan Jr. as John 'Let 'Er Go' Gallegher
  • Harrison Ford as Henry Clay Callahan
  • Elinor Fair as Clarissa Mahaffey
  • Wade Boteler as McGinty
  • E.H. Calvert as City Editor
  • Ivan Lebedeff as Stephen B. Hade AKA Four Fingers Dan
  • Morgan Brown as Prohibition Officer

References

  1. ^ "Let 'Er Go, Gallegher (1928)" – via www.rottentomatoes.com.
  2. ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
  3. ^ Davis, Richard Harding (October 28, 2014). Gallegher, and Other Stories. Read Books Ltd. ISBN 9781473396579 – via Google Books.

Bibliography

  • Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
  • Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

  • Let 'Er Go Gallegher at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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