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Hangman's House

6.6 80 mins Thriller   Drama   Romance   1928
Fox Film Corporation  
Director(s): John Ford

Release Date: 13 Sun, May 1928

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.

Casts of Hangman's House

Victor McLaglen

as Denis Hogan

June Collyer

as Connaught O'Brien

Earle Foxe

as John D'Arcy

Hobart Bosworth

as Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien

Larry Kent

as Dermot McDermot

Joseph Burke

as Neddy Joe - Dermot's Servant

Mary Gordon

as The Woman at Hogan's Hideout

Brian Desmond Hurst

as Horse Race Spectator

Eric Mayne

as Colonel of Legionnaires

Jack Pennick

as Man Bringing Dermot to Hogan

Belle Stoddard

as Anne McDermott

John Wayne

as Horse Race Spectator / Condemned Man in Flashback

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