Mother Machree

I can’t review this film in full because its state is simply too incomplete to consider fully. There are only four of its seven reels still in existence, and two of the missing reels are the final two. Still, I watched what I could, and while I can’t give the film anything like a full measure, I can offer up some small thoughts.

Mother Machree, as far as I can tell, is the story of a woman and son who move from Ireland to America when they fall upon hard times at the death of the patriarc...