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    The Shamrock Handicap

    The Shamrock Handicap

    1926

    1:06:06

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    The Shamrock Handicap

    Genre

    Romance
    Drama

    Plot

    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.

    Director

    John Ford

    Writers

    Peter B. Kyne, Elizabeth Pickett,

    Stars

    Janet Gaynor, Leslie Fenton, Willard Louis, J. Farrell MacDonald, Claire McDowell,