Big Jim Garrity newspaper 1916 advertisement

''Big Jim Garrity'' is a 1916 silent

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directed by

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and starring

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, Eleanor Woodruff and

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.Parish & Pitts p.126 The film was based on a 1910 play of the same name by

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adapted it for the screen. Location shooting for the film was done in

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Cast

as Jim Garrity * Eleanor Woodruff as Sylvia Craigen *

as Dawson * Lyster Chambers as Dr. Hugh Malone * Charles Compton as Sam Craigen *

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as Mr. Craigen

Preservation

A complete print of ''Big Jim Garrity'' is held by the Archives du Film du CNC in Bois d'Arcy. In 2017, the film was restored by the

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from a print in their own collection and the intertitles were sourced from a copy from The

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References

Bibliography

*James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts. ''Film directors: a guide to their American films''. Scarecrow Press, 1974.

External links

* 1916 films 1916 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Films directed by George Fitzmaurice Pathé Exchange films 1910s American films English-language drama films {{1910s-drama-film-stub