---
title: 'Mother Machree (1928)'
type: 'film'
director: 'John Ford'
released: '1928-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 75
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/mother-machree-1928'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019182/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Mother Machree (1928)

1928 · 75 min · Drama · United States


## Synopsis

Mother Machree is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by John Ford that is based on the 1924 work The Story of Mother Machree by Rida Johnson Young about a poor Irish immigrant in America. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score, singing and sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process. Rida Johnson Young had invented Mother Machree in the stage show Barry of Ballymoore in 1910. John Wayne has a minor role in the film.

## Credits

- **Producer:** [Belle Bennett](https://cinepixo.com/people/belle-bennett), [Neil Hamilton](https://cinepixo.com/people/neil-hamilton), [John Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-ford)
- **Director:** [John Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-ford)
- **Screenplay:** [Gertrude Orr](https://cinepixo.com/people/gertrude-orr)

## Cast

- [Aggie Herring](https://cinepixo.com/people/aggie-herring)
- [Eulalie Jensen](https://cinepixo.com/people/eulalie-jensen)
- [Robert Parrish](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-parrish)
- [Belle Bennett](https://cinepixo.com/people/belle-bennett)
- [John Wayne](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-wayne)
- [Ethel Clayton](https://cinepixo.com/people/ethel-clayton)
- [Neil Hamilton](https://cinepixo.com/people/neil-hamilton)
- [Victor McLaglen](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-mclaglen)

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