The Cohens and Kellys

The Cohens and Kellys (1926)

They Squabbled Over A Million Dollar Legacy and Gave Birth To A Million Laughs

Jacob Cohen, who owns a dry goods store, and Patrick Kelly, an Irish cop, are constantly at loggerheads, feuding over anything and everything. Kelly's son, Tim, and Cohen's daughter, Nannie, fall in love despite the bickering of their parents; when they cannot get parental consent for their marriage, they secretly wed.

Date of release
1926-02-28
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Harry A. Pollard

Casting

Interesting facts

The Cohens and Kellys is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Harry A. Pollard and starring Charles Murray, George Sidney, Kate Price, and Jason Robards Sr. The film is the first of the Cohens and Kellys film serials. The film is perhaps best known today as the subject of Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corp., a copyright infringement case, in which Judge Learned Hand articulated the doctrine that copyright protection does not cover the characteristics of stock characters in a story.

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