Miles Machree (J. Warren Kerrigan) meets Irish-American Sheila Lynch (Fritzi Brunette) when she travels through Ireland with her father (James O. Barrows). Soon after the Lynch's return to the States, Miles follows, and through his uncle's connections, gets a job on the New York City police force.
Production
Dual-location shooting: Ireland and NYC in 1919.
Costume
Period NYPD uniforms vs. Irish peasant garb contrast.

Director
Ernest C. Warde
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
No known prints survive; this film exists only in stills and plot descriptions. You're chasing ghosts.
Released months before Prohibition, this captures the last gasp of romanticized Irish-American police identity before the corruption era.
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