Release Date

24 Jun, 1959

Runtime

01:51: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

A story of love and hate...and the sudden sound of guns!

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.

Original Title

Shake Hands with the Devil

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Actors

James Cagney

Don Murray

Dana Wynter

Glynis Johns

Michael Redgrave

Sybil Thorndike

Cyril Cusack

Marianne Benet

John Breslin

Harry Brogan

Richard Harris

William Hartnell

John Le Mesurier

Niall MacGinnis

Ray McAnally

Patrick McAlinney

Clive Morton

Noel Purcell

Peter Reynolds

Walter Gotell

Robert Brown

Crew

Gordon Pilkington

Walter Seltzer

Marian Spitzer

Michael Anderson

Rearden Conner

William Alwyn

Erwin Hillier

Ben Roberts

Michael Anderson

Ivan Goff

Robert Lennard

Cliff Richardson

Joan White

Roy Whybrow