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Shake Hands with the Devil

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Original title

Shake Hands with the Devil

Year

1959

Running time

111 min.

Country

Ireland

Director

Michael Anderson

Screenwriter

Marian Spitzer, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts. Novel: Rearden Conner

Cast

Music

William Alwyn

Cinematography

Erwin Hillier (B&W)

Producer

Co-production Ireland-United States;

Pennebaker Productions, Troy Films

Genre

Drama | 1920s. Terrorism. IRA

Synopsis

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.

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Shake Hands with the Devil

1959

Michael Anderson

6.7

(162)