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Conn, the Shaughraun

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Conn, the Shaughraun
Directed byGaston Mervale
Based onplay by Dion Boucicault
StarringLouise Carbasse
Production
company
Release date
  • 28 March 1912 (1912-03-28) (Sydney)
Running time
3,000 feet[1]
CountryAustralia
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

Conn, the Shaughraun is a 1912 Australian silent film directed by Gaston Mervale starring Louise Lovely based on a popular play by Dion Boucicault. It is considered a lost film.[2]

Plot

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Kinchela, an unscrupulous land agent, determines to get possession of the land belonging to Robert Ffolliott and his sister Claire, who are his charges. He causes Robert to be sentenced to penal servitude by swearing information falsely that he is a Fenian. Robert escapes and returns home, and is again soon in the hands of Kinchela. But Conn, the shaughraun, intervenes, Robert is pardoned (as are all the Fenians), and Kinchela brought to justice.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Advertising". The Referee. Sydney. 22 May 1912. p. 16. Retrieved 14 September 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p33
  3. ^ "Advertising". The West Australian. Perth. 30 April 1913. p. 2. Retrieved 26 January 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
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