Boomerang Bill

1922 film

  • February 12, 1922 (1922-02-12)
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6 reels; 5,489 feetCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Boomerang Bill is an extant 1922 American silent crime melodrama film produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Paramount Pictures. Adapted from a Boston Blackie short story by Jack Boyle,[1] it was directed by Tom Terriss and stars veteran actor Lionel Barrymore. It is preserved incomplete at the Library of Congress and George Eastman House.[2][3][4][5][6]

Plot

Cast

  • Lionel Barrymore as Boomerang Bill
  • Marguerite Marsh as Annie
  • Margaret Seddon as Annie's Mother
  • Frank Shannon as Terrence O'Malley
  • Matthew Betz as Tony the Wop
  • Charles Fang as Chinaman
  • Harry Lee as Chinaman
  • Miriam Battista as Chinese Girl
  • Helen Kim as Chinese Girl

References

  1. ^ Boyle, Jack (December 1920). "Boomerang Bill". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved August 27, 2016.
  2. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Boomerang Bill at silentera.com
  3. ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress page 20 by The American Film Institute, c.1978
  4. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921–30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
  5. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Boomerang Bill
  6. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Boomerang Bill

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  • Lionel Barrymore and Marguerite Marsh in a film scene (University of Washington, Sayre Collection)
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