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4 June 1937 (USA) morePlot:
The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to free his country from English rule... more | full synopsisUser Comments:
Dreadful moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Clark Gable | ... | Charles Stewart Parnell | |
| Myrna Loy | ... | Mrs. Katie O'Shea | |
| Edna May Oliver | ... | Aunt Ben Wood | |
| Edmund Gwenn | ... | Campbell, Parnell's Secretary | |
| Alan Marshal | ... | Captain William 'Willie' O'Shea | |
| Donald Crisp | ... | Michael Davitt | |
| Billie Burke | ... | Miss Clara Wood | |
| Berton Churchill | ... | The O'Gorman Mahon | |
| Donald Meek | ... | Murphy | |
| Montagu Love | ... | William Ewart Gladstone | |
| Byron Russell | ... | Timothy Healy | |
| Brandon Tynan | ... | John Redmond | |
| Phyllis Coghlan | ... | Ellen, Katie's Maid (as Phillis Coghlan) | |
| Neil Fitzgerald | ... | Richard Pigott | |
| George Zucco | ... | Sir Charles Russell |
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Fun Stuff
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To get Clark Gable and Myrna Loy in the mood for the sad ending of the movie, the director put on sad music over and over again. Gable complained to then-girlfriend Carole Lombard and the next day instead of the regular music a jazzy version of "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You" started playing. moreQuotes:
[while visiting America, Parnell gives some money to a poor family]Poor man: It's little wonder why they call him the King of Ireland.
Sheriff: The *uncrowned* King.
Poor woman: He'll get his crown in heaven.
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Surely when this movie first appeared in 1937 somebody, (everybody?), involved must have known what a crock, (and I'm not talking gold, here), they were sitting on. "Parnell" is a turkey fat enough to feed a family of forty and like a lot of big, bad movies is, nevertheless, quite enjoyable, if for all the wrong reasons. Historically, I can't vouchsafe for its accuracy but then this isn't a film about Irish history and the struggle for Home Rule but a romantic drama about a real-life historical figure ruined by his love for a married woman and it starred two of the biggest names in movies at the time.
When this movie came out Gable had already won an Oscar and Myrna Loy was fresh from playing, superbly, in The Thin Man movies but they are both terrible here. Indeed, this isn't just Gable's worst performance but one of the monumentally bad performances in the history of the movies, (his death-bed sequence is a classic). A sterling supporting cast, (Edna May Oliver, Donald Crisp, Billie Burke, Edmund Gwenn), do offer a few crumbs of comfort but they are far from enough to redeem this sorry mess. John Stahl directed but you would never have guessed it.