Hogan's Alley (film)

Hogan's Alley
Hogan's Alley
	Hogan's Alley lobby card
Directed by	Roy Del Ruth
Written by	Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring	Monte Blue; Patsy Ruth Miller
Cinematography	Charles Van Enger
Edited by	Clarence Kolster
Production; company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	December 12, 1925;
Running time	7 reels; (6,370 feet)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Hogan's Alley is a 1925 American silent comedy film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It was an early directing assignment for Roy Del Ruth and starred Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, and Ben Turpin. This film is a precursor to the silent film One Round Hogan, a later Monte Blue boxing vehicle.[1][2]

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine,[3] Patsy (Miller) is the scrappy little daughter of an ignorant lazy Irishman (Louis) who lives in Hogan's Alley. Her sweetheart Lefty O'Brien (Blue) is a prize-fighter, but this does not suit her father who wants her to marry a rich man. Lefty is arrested when his opponent in the fight fails to regain consciousness. Patsy is hurt and Lefty calls Dr. Franklin (Barrie), a swell doctor who takes a shine to Patsy and invites her and her father to his lodge. He proves to be a villain who attempts to sweep her off her feet. Lefty follows their train but his car is wrecked by the locomotive. With Patsy now on a runaway train, Lefty hires an airplane and transfers from it to the train, knocks out the villain, and stops the engine just before it runs into a landslide.

Cast

Monte Blue as Lefty O'Brien
Patsy Ruth Miller as Patsy Ryan
Willard Louis as Michael Ryan
Louise Fazenda as Dolly
Ben Turpin as A stranger
Heinie Conklin as The stranger's friend
Max Davidson as Clothier
Herbert Spencer Griswold as The Texas Kid
Frank Hagney as Battling Savage
Nigel Barrie as Dr. Emmett Franklin
Mary Carr as Mother Ryan
Frank Bond as Al Murphy

Preservation status

Hogan's Alley survives in an incomplete or abridged version in the French archive Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée in Fort de Bois-d'Arcy.[4]

References

The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
Hogan's Alley at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Warner Brothers Pictures Archived December 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
Sewell, Charles S. (December 5, 1925). "Through the Box Office Window: Hogan's Alley; Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller in Film that Has Wide Variety of Audience Appeal". The Moving Picture World. New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co. 77 (5): 482. Retrieved October 16, 2021. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Hogan's Alley

External links

Hogan's Alley at the American Film Institute Catalog
Hogan's Alley at IMDb
Synopsis at AllMovie

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[1] The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971

[2] Hogan's Alley at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Warner Brothers Pictures Archived December 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine

[MPW-3] Sewell, Charles S. (December 5, 1925). "Through the Box Office Window: Hogan's Alley; Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller in Film that Has Wide Variety of Audience Appeal". The Moving Picture World. New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co. 77 (5): 482. Retrieved October 16, 2021. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[4] The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Hogan's Alley