A Fighting Colleen

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A Fighting Colleen
File:Fighting Colleen lobby card.jpg
Lobby card
Directed byDavid Smith
Screenplay byGerald C. Duffy[1]
Story byGerald C. Duffy[1]
Starring
CinematographyCharles R. Seeling[2]
Production
company
Release date
  • November 16, 1919 (1919-11-16) (U.S.)[3][4]
Running time
5 reels;[1] 4,471 feet[5]
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

A Fighting Colleen is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama[1] film directed by David Smith[1] and produced by Vitagraph Company of America.[1] It stars Bessie Love and Charles Spere.

The film is presumed lost.[6]

Plot

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Alannah Malone (Love), an Irish immigrant living in a tenement, who sells newspapers to make a living. When her mother dies, she engages in fistfights to defend her territory from newsboys. One particular newsboy (Spere) falls for her after she beats him up. The tenement in which Alannah lives is owned by the city's unjust mayor. When the District Attorney announces his candidacy for mayor, Alannah aids his campaign by gathering evidence to expose the mayor as a hypocrite.[1][7]

Cast

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Reception

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Press for the film likened it to Mary Pickford's Daddy Long Legs and Mabel Normand's Mickey.[8] The film received positive reviews, and did well at the box office.[9]

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