A Touch of the Poet

Cornelius "Con" Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his former days as a nobleman and decorated officer in the British army during the Napoleonic wars. Impoverished now, he struts about in his uniform and plots to make money by manipulating the love of his daughter for the son of a wealthy manufacturer. His daughter sees through his façade and his chicanery and begins to plot for herself.

• Eugene O'NeillWriter
• Stephen PorterDirector
• Kirk BrowningDirector

• Donald MoffatJamie Cregan
• Robert PhalenMickey Maloy
• Roberta MaxwellSara Melody
• Nancy MarchandNora Melody
• Fritz WeaverCornelius Melody
• Tom ClancyDan Roche
• John HeffernanPaddy O'Dowd
• Howland ChamberlainPatch Riley
• Carrie NyeDeborah Harford
• Humphrey DavisNicholas Gadsby