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Release year: 1965

Storyline

The misadventures of a young idealist man in Dublin, Ireland in the early twentieth century.

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Cast

Rod Taylor — John Cassidy
Flora Robson — Mrs. Cassidy
Jack MacGowran — Archie
Siân Phillips — Ella

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Awards

0 wins & 2 nominations

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Did you know

• The character of "John Cassidy" is allegedly based on playwright Sean O'Casey (his name is an Anglicization of O'Casey's), but Rod Taylor, playing the part, bears no resemblance to the famous writer. The real O'Casey was a diminutive man with poor eyesight who always wore thick glasses and kept out of violent encounters. He was a working-class man of strong intellectual gifts and fierce political views, and in reality was, at the time of the events depicted, about fifteen or twenty years older than "Cassidy" is supposed to be.

• Rod Taylor said this was his favorite movie in which he starred.

• In an interview, director Jack Cardiff said that only four minutes and five seconds of the footage shot by John Ford ended up in the finished movie. The riot scene was cited by critics as the obvious work of Ford, yet it was completely done by Cardiff who admitted that he found inspiration from Battleship Potemkin (1925).

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