Lentorama 2014: We're Ready for Your Closeup, Your Holiness
Day 19: In the Days of Saint Patrick
This silent film from 1920 is about the life of St. Patrick, with an actor named George Brame (in his only credit) playing Pope Celestine. It's an Irish film, and apparently the state of Irish film at the time resulted in something that had great outdoor scenes and comically amateur indoor scenes (based on the one review on the IMDB page).
The adult Patrick is played by someone named Ira Allen, which is interesting to me for two reasons. First, Allen only has two credits in IMDB - this film and a 2010 songwriting credit in Country Strong. Based on Ira Allen's website, I'm thinking the credits belong to two different Iras.
The other reason that caught me is that one of the buildings on our campus is the former Ira Allen school, named for a prominent Roxbury doctor and coroner. And not the Irish actor. Or American country musician. Or founding father of Vermont and brother of Ethan Allen.
26 March 2014
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