The Colleen Bawn is a 1911 American silent romantic drama film based on the 1860 play of the same name. A secret marriage leads to murder. The story is based on the actual 1819 murder of 15-year-old Ellen Scanlan.
Cast
Production The film was shot in Beaufort, County Kerry, Ireland, during the summer of 1911.
Preservation A 1914 re-release print of the film is held by the National Archives of Canada, and the George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection has one reel.
References
Michel Derrien, Aux origines du cinéma irlandais: Sidney Olcott, le premier oeil, TIR 2013. Denis Condon, Touristic Work and Pleasure: The Kalem Company in Killarney Denis Condon, Limelight on the Colleen Bawn: Resisting Autoexoticism in Provincial Irish Picture Houses in the Early 1910s
External links
Full restored film at YouTube The Colleen Bawn website dedicated to Sidney Olcott Dramatization of the film in The Motion Picture Story Magazine (Oct. 1911), available on the Internet Archive