Mother Machree is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by John Ford that is based on the 1924 work The Story of Mother Machree by Rida Johnson Young about a poor Irish immigrant in America. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score, singing and sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process. Rida Johnson Young had invented Mother Machree in the stage show Barry of Ballymoore in 1910. John Wayne has a minor role in the film.

Plot

In the Irish coastal village of Ballymore in 1899, Ellen McHugh (Belle Bennett) becomes a widow when her husband is killed in a violent storm at sea. Alone but fiercely determined to give her young son Brian (Philippe De Lacy) a better future, she decides to emigrate to America.