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4 June 1937 (USA)
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The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to free his country from English rule...
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Politician
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Parliament
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Trial
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Heart Disease
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Village
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the perils of miscasting
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(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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118 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Finland:S |
USA:Approved (PCA #3145)
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One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.
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Charles Stewart Parnell:
Ours could be a great love story, Katie.
Mrs. Katie O'Shea: Great love stories are always unhappy ones.
Charles Stewart Parnell: Then I hope ours *won't* be great.
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Mrs. Katie O'Shea: Great love stories are always unhappy ones.
Charles Stewart Parnell: Then I hope ours *won't* be great.
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Wearin' of the Green
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This 1937 MGM film was, I take it, a major bomb at the time of its initial release. Certainly, this blend of historical drama, tearjerker romance, and fuzzy politics could not have been considered commercial even back then. That probably explains the casting of two of MGM's biggest stars, Clark Gable and Myrna Loy, in roles that they were ill-suited to (to say the least)--an effort to offset the uncommercial nature of the project with star power. Could there have been a more archetypical (is that a word?) American actor than Gable? Here, he doesn't even attempt an Irish accent; he is uncharacteristically ill-at-ease and the scenes toward the end of the film when his character is supposedly in failing health are laughable (Gable never looks less than robust). Loy fares only slightly better--she was a chic and witty actress, but here she goes the teary, noble route with blah results. Only the great character actress Edna May Oliver, with her horsey face and tart manner, manages to make anything of her scenes. MGM would have done better casting, say, Spencer Tracy and Maureen O'Sullivan (both of whom, I think, were under contract to the studio)--at least they would have been more believable in the parts, though the basic problems of the film (lacklustre direction and a screenplay that tells us very little about the titular character and his politics) would have remained.