Juno and the Paycock (1930)

{ ALTERNATE TITLE: The Shame of Mary Boyle } During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life forgetting what the most important values of are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds.

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Film & Animation

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• Hitch
• Hitchcock
• Alfred Hitchcock
• feature
• length
• film
• full
• movie
• Sara Allgood
• Edward Chapman
• Barry Fitzgerald

[djuma77]

Oops! I have to correct myself. According to imdb., Sara Allgood only made one Ford film, "How Green..." So she wasn't a Ford regular, really. She did go to Hollywood, around 1940, and appeared in lots of films there, often in the same kinds of roles as in this film. She was also in Hitchcock's "Blackmail," in 1929. Amazing how many of these early Irish players later ended up in Hollywood. Allgood, Fitzgerald, his brother Arthur Shields, Una O'Connor, J.M. Kerrigan, etc. Great character actors.

[djuma77]

Thanks for posting this rarely-seen film. It's interesting seeing such a different kind of Hitchcock picture. It's a bit static, but it has a very powerful ending, that makes viewing the whole film more than worthwhile. It reminds me a little of "The Informer," both the 1929 British version, and the famous 1935 John Ford film. Interesting in that Sara Allgood later became a John Ford regular, as in "How Green Was My Valley." For any Hitchcock fans, this is worth watching. Different for him.