Hangman's House

Story

Synopsis

Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien, to marry a man she doesn't love, Connaught O'Brien gives up hope of ever with her true love, Dermot McDermot. After her father dies and a hunted rebel leader returns to town, however, Connaught finds a renewed hope that the tides of oppression will shift and she might again find happiness. This silent romantic drama, set in Ireland, is the first film in which a then-unknown John Wayne is clearly visible.

Director

John Ford

Writers

Willard Mack, Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne, Marion Orth

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

13 May 1928

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Victor McLaglen

  Denis Hogan

• 

  June Collyer

  Connaught O'Brien

• 

  Earle Foxe

  John D'Arcy

• 

  Hobart Bosworth

  Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien

• 

  Larry Kent

  Dermot McDermot

• 

  Joseph Burke

  Neddy Joe - Dermot's Servant

• 

  Mary Gordon

  The Woman at Hogan's Hideout

• 

  Brian Desmond Hurst

  Horse Race Spectator

• 

  Eric Mayne

  Colonel of Legionnaires

• 

  Jack Pennick

  Man Bringing Dermot to Hogan

• Belle Stoddard

  Anne McDermott

• 

  John Wayne

  Horse Race Spectator / Condemned Man in Flashback