Boomerang Bill

Boomerang Bill
Lionel Barrymore and Miriam Battista in Boomerang Bill
Directed by	Tom Terriss
Produced by	William Randolph Hearst (*for Cosmopolitan Productions)
Written by	Tom Terriss (scenario)
Based on	"Boomerang Bill" by Jack Boyle
Starring	Lionel Barrymore Marguerite Marsh
Cinematography	Al Liguori
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	February 12, 1922
Running time	6 reels; 5,489 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Boomerang Bill is an extant 1922 American silent crime melodrama film produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Paramount Pictures. Adapted from a Boston Blackie short story by Jack Boyle,^[1] it was directed by Tom Terriss and stars veteran actor Lionel Barrymore. It is preserved incomplete at the Library of Congress and George Eastman House.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Cast

• Lionel Barrymore - Boomerang Bill
• Marguerite Marsh - Annie
• Margaret Seddon - Annie's Mother
• Frank Shannon - Terrence O'Malley
• Matthew Betz - Tony the Wop
• Charles Fang - Chinaman
• Harry Lee - Chinaman
• Miriam Battista - Chinese Girl
• Helen Kim - Chinese Girl

References

1. Boyle, Jack (December 1920). "Boomerang Bill". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
2. Progressive Silent Film List: Boomerang Bill at silentera.com
3. Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress page 20 by The American Film Institute, c.1978
4. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
5. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Boomerang Bill
6. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Boomerang Bill

External links

• Boomerang Bill at the Internet Movie Database
• Boomerang Bill synopsis at AllMovie
• Period newspaper clipping Boomerang Bill
• Lionel Barrymore and Marguerite Marsh in a film scene (University of Washington, Sayre Collection)