Parnell
(DVD)

Credits supplied from: AFI catalog, 1931-1940.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1937.

Based on the play by Elsie T. Schauffler.

Not rated.

Screenplay, John Van Druten and S.N. Behrman; contributor to treatment, Lenore Coffee; photography, Karl Freund; art director, Cedric Gibbons; art director associates, William A. Horning and Edwin B. Willis; film editor, Frederick Y. Smith; gowns, Adrian; music score, Dr. William Axt; recording director, Douglas Shearer; sound, Jimmy Burbridge; technical advisor, Captain Gerard William Henry O'Shea.

Clark Gable (Charles Stewart Parnell); Myrna Loy (Katie O'Shea); Edna May Oliver (Aunt Ben); Edmund Gwenn (Campbell); Alan Marshall (Capt. William "Willie" O'Shea); Donald Crisp (Davitt); Billie Burke (Clara Wood); Berton Churchill (the O'Gorman Mahon); Donald Meek (Murphy); Montagu Love (Gladstone); Byron Russell (Healy); Brandon Tynan (Redmond); Phyllis Coghlan (Ellen); Neil Fitzgerald (Pigott); George Zucco (Sir Charles Russell); Eily Malyon (Irish woman with dead child); Erville Alderson and Russell Simpson (fathers); Halliwell Hobbes (W.H. Smith); J. Farrell MacDonald (Irish laborer); Pat Moriarity (O'Brien); Murray Kinnell (Webster); D'Arcy Corrigan, Dermott Quinn, Jack Kennedy, Tom Mahoney, Drew Demorest, Jack Murphy (committee men); Joe North (butler in O'Shea's home); Pat Flaherty, David MacDonald, Thomas Carr, Leo McCabe (members of Parliament); Pat O'Malley and James Blaine (Irishmen); William Stack and Leonard Mudie (Conservative members); Zeffie Tilbury (old lady); Ricardo Mandia (Italian laborer); Ian MacLaren, Tyrone Brereton, Ramsay Hill (members of House of Commons); Geordie Mackay (messenger boy); Robert E. Homans and Wade Boteler (Irish cops); Charles McNaughton (hot potato man); Otto Fries (singing Irish member); Douglas Gordon (Cockney porter); Yorke Sherwood (London cabby); Joseph R. Tozer (London bobby); Tom Ricketts (elderly man); Jimmie McElveen (young man); Dick Elliott and Alec Craig (middle aged men); Rita Page (young girl); Wally Maher (villager); Frank Sheridan (sheriff); Sr. Frank McGlynn (landlord); Robin Adair (officer); Craufurd Kent (speaker of house); Charles Irwin (usher); Pat Somerset (Frank Lockwood); Keith Kenneth (doorman); Frank Baker (George Davis); Jameson Thomas (Judge Nanan); Lumsden Hare (editor); Frank Elliott (Judge Day); Marion Ballou, Speirs Ruskell, George Cowl, Leyland Hodgson, Olaf Hytten, Corbet Morris.

The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to free his country from English rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. Emphasis is on the relationship with married Katie O'Shea which threatens to bring all Parnell's plans to ruin. Moderately accurate historically --IMDb.

DVD, full frame (4:3); Dolby digital English only (mono.).

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