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
- ^ Boyle, Jack (December 1920). "Boomerang Bill". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved August 27, 2016.
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Boomerang Bill at silentera.com
- ^ 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
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921–30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Boomerang Bill
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Boomerang Bill
External links
- Boomerang Bill at IMDb
- Period newspaper clipping Boomerang Bill
- Lionel Barrymore and Marguerite Marsh in a film scene (University of Washington, Sayre Collection)
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