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The Shamrock Handicap

5.1 66 mins Romance   Drama   1926
Fox Film Corporation  
Director(s): John Ford

Because he refuses to collect rent payments from his impoverished tenants, kindly Irish nobleman Sir Miles Gaffney is in danger of losing his estate. He is forced to sell off part of his racing stable to a wealthy American, who takes along Gaffney's jockey Neil Ross as part of the bargain. When Neil is crippled in a racing accident, Sir Miles and his daughter Sheila sail to America with their prize horse "Dark Rosaleen" in tow. The first film having an Irish motif that John Ford directed, a six reel delight set in Eire's County Kildare and in the United States, with a steeplechase background, mixing charged elements of comedy and sentimental drama.

Casts of The Shamrock Handicap

Janet Gaynor

as Lady Sheila O'Hara

Leslie Fenton

as Neil Ross

Willard Louis

as Orville Finch

J. Farrell MacDonald

as Con O'Shea

Claire McDowell

as Molly O'Shea

Louis Payne

as Sir Miles O'Hara

George Harris

as Jockey Ginsburg

Andy Clark

as 'Chesty' Morgan

Ely Reynolds

as Virus Cakes

Thomas Delmar

as Michaels

Bill Elliott

as Well-Wishing Villager

Brandon Hurst

as The Procurer of Taxes

Eric Mayne

as Doctor

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