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...Irish Luck" really isn't as bad a picture as Meighan usually performs in, the reason being largely that there are things in it to draw one's attention away from Meighan. There are, for example, some excellent shots of Blarney Castle and the countryside about Killarney which are downright pretty. Just when one's enjoyment of the ivied walls and crested turrets reaches its height, Meighan walks in like an American tourist in a china shop and ruins the entire effect. We would infinitely prefer to see Ireland alone...
Fenway--"Irish Luck," with Tom Meighan...
Fenway--"Irish Luck", with Tom Meighan...
Booth Tarkington has written another story for Thomas Meighan; a story that looks dangerously as though he had rewritten it from an earlier Meighan film. The star plays a convict-innocent of course -who gives up his revenge because his girl suggests it. Mr. Meighan's films of late have been just about as thin as milk can get. They are still popular...
...Home Week. Good comedy material for Thomas Meighan has once more been secured from the workshop of Booth Tarkington. Our hero bluffs his old village into believing him an oil king; discovers oil on the village outskirts; goes broke; and is forced to devise a water spout on the oil strike to puff values for his stock. Through it all he is, of course, quite honest. Lila Lee is the lady he marries. While scarcely a classic, the film is the best Air. Meighan has manufactured in some time. (See also BUSINESS & FINANCE...