Private Izzy Murphy

Private Izzy Murphy

🎞️ Movie 85 min --
1926

Isadore "Izzy" Goldberg changes his name to I. Patrick Murphy because his store is in an Irish-neighborhood in New York City. He meets Eileen Cohannigan, the daughter of a meat-packer, and he tells her he is Irish and a romance begins. When America enters World War I, "Izzy" enlists, is sent to France, and is wounded while engaged in a heroic rescue during a big battle. While recovering in an overseas hospital, he write Eileen and tells her he is Jewish and not Irish. Returning home, he is parading with his regiment and he sees Eileen with Robert O'Malley, his old rival. He thinks she has thrown him over because he is Jewish. An Irish lodge comes to bestow an honor on the man they think is Patrick Murphy, an Irish hero. But O'Malley tells them his real name is Goldberg. But Eileen tels him it is he she loves, and they head for the marriage-license bureau.

Cast

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George Jessel
Isadore 'Izzy' Goldberg, posing as I. Patrick Murphy
Patsy Ruth Miller
Patsy Ruth Miller
Eileen Cohannigan
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Vera Gordon
Sara Goldberg
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Nat Carr
The Shadchen, Moe Ginsberg
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William H. Strauss
Jacob Goldberg
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Spec O'Donnell
The Monohan Kid
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Cohannigan
Douglas Gerrard
Douglas Gerrard
Robert O'Malley
Tom Murray
Tom Murray
The Attorney
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Fletcher Tolbert
Virgil Miller
Virgil Miller
Cinematographer