For decades, The Callahans and the Murphys was believed completely lost
A still from a restored fragment of the 1927 film The Callahans and the Murphys. The film drew the ire of Irish America. Photograph: Courtesy of the Irish Film Institute
At a St Patrick’s Day picnic, the eponymous warring families from “Goat Alley”, a New York tenement block, also find themselves neighbours in the park. The controversy does not seem to have featured in this or other national newspapers here. But the Kerry Reporter was outraged. The notoriety is ironic, because the film was based on a collection of stories by Kathleen Thompson Norris , a prolific and best-selling author of the period.
Mill Valley was a complete contrast. A mountain retreat from the city’s infamous fogs, it was a haven of redwood trees and teetotalers. In the temperance sense, it had been “bone dry” for years.
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