

Two Irish families feud so hard the film itself almost didn't survive.
Acting
Dressler and Moran's battle-axe chemistry is silent-era gold.
Production
Authentic tenement sets that MGM later recycled endlessly.
Director
George W. Hill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Only fragments survive in the MGM vault and Czech archives; the complete negative was likely destroyed in a 1965 fire.
This was MGM's attempt to replicate the success of The Cohens and Kellys, part of a brief Hollywood obsession with hyphenated-American family comedies that collapsed with the coming of sound.
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