Shake Hands with the Devil
A story of love and hate...and the sudden sound of guns!
19591h 51mNo ratings yet
- Action
- Drama
- War
- History
Overview
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 by 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.
Keywords
- rebellion
- 1920s
- irish-american
- bombing
- fugitive suspect
- ireland
- hostage-taking
- new recruit
- medical student
- ira (irish republican army)
- dublin
- liberation of hostage
- irish history
- irish resistance
- freedom fighters
- irish war of independence (1919-22)
- irish
- political violence
- irish republican
- british crimes
- undercover mission
- symbolic violence
- black and tan
- dublin, ireland
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 24, 1959
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Ireland, United States of America
- Production
- Pennebaker Productions,Troy Films
- Cast
- Marianne Benet,James Cagney,Christopher Casson,Christopher Rhodes,Eileen Crowe,Cyril Cusack,John Cairney,Robert Brown,Paul Farrell,Godfrey Quigleyand 27 more
- Director
- Michael Anderson
- Cinematography
- Erwin Hillier
- Music
- William Alwyn
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0053272