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, it was directed by Tom Terriss and stars veteran actor Lionel Barrymore. It is preserved incomplete at the Library of Congress and George Eastman Museum.Progressive Silent Film List: Boomerang Bill at silentera.comCatalog 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.1978The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921–30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Boomerang BillThe Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Boomerang Bill
Plot
Cast Lionel Barrymore as Boomerang Bill Marguerite Marsh as Annie Margaret Seddon as Annie's Mother Frank Shannon as Terrence O'Malley Matthew Betz as Tony the Wop Charles Fang as Chinaman Harry Lee as Chinaman Miriam Battista as Chinese Girl Helen Kim as Chinese Girl
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Period newspaper clipping Boomerang Bill Lionel Barrymore and Marguerite Marsh in a film scene (University of Washington, Sayre Collection)