“HANGMAN’S HOUSE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 400, 14 July 1928, Page 16

“HANGMAN’S HOUSE”

NEW FOX" FILM Based on Donn Byrn’s best seller, “Hangman’s House,” produced by Fox Films, is typically Irish, and, in common with virtually all pictures directed by John Ford, is packed with human interest and bristles with action. Briefly the story is that of an adamant old Irish Chief Justice, who, as “Jimmy the Hangman,” insists that his one daughter shall wed a man she dislikes rather than the man of her choice, in the person of Larry Kent, who is cast as Dermott McDermott. When her father dies, shortly after a midnight ceremony in the chapel of “Hangman's House.” Juno Collyer, as Connaught O'Brien, suffers untold agony’ as the unwilling bride of John Darcy, as depicted by Earle Foxe. Darcy, who is concealing a checkered career, is trailed to Ireland by Citizen Hogan, played by Victor McLaglen. Connaught wonders why Darcy fears the mysterious Hogan, but is kept in doubt until the day of the annual steeplechase in which Connaught has entered her favourite horse. The Bard of Armagh, Darcy,betting against The Bard, is infuriated when Dermott rides The Bard to victory. Darcy shoots The Bard and is exposed by Hogan as the man who has wronged Hogan’s sister in Paris. Gripping sequences pile up in preparation for a smashing climax.