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Conn, the Shaughraun

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Conn, the Shaughraun

1912

0h 33m

9.0(1 votes)

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Adapted from Dion Boucicault’s classic 1874 play, the story follows an unjustly exiled Irish patriot and the clever vagabond, Conn, who engineers his escape from a penal colony.

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Louise Lovely

Louise Lovely

Claire Ffolliott

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Directed by: Gaston Mervale
Written by: Dion Boucicault

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