The Shame of Mary Boyle
(1929)
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The Shame of Mary Boyle
(1929)
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The Orator
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Maire O'Neill | ... |
Mrs. Maisie Madigan
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Edward Chapman | ... | |
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Sidney Morgan | ... | |
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Sara Allgood | ... | |
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Dave Morris | ... | |
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Kathleen O'Regan | ... | |
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John Longden | ... | |
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Dennis Wyndham | ... |
The Mobiliser
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Fred Schwartz | ... |
Mr. Kelly
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During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life forgetting what the most important values of are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds. Written by Claudio Sandrini <pulp99@geocities.com>
This is a work of socialist realism, showing the lives of the working-class from the worker's point of view. It is shocking and raw, but contains a great deal wit and humor. It is certainly a surprise to see Hitchcock handling such overtly political material.
He does it with a great deal of sensitivity. He allows Sean O'Casey's wonderful dialogue to carry the film and does not allow any cinematic tricks to get in the way.
This is a must-see film. For those who think that Hitchcock is all technique and no ideological substance, it will be a surprise and a revelation.
Only "The Skin Game" matches it for overtly Marxist political drama.