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Director:
John Ford
Writers:
Lady Augusta Gregory (story)
Michael J. McHugh (story)
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Release Date:
10 August 1957 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Plot:
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the... more | add synopsis
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Irish heartbeat more (6 total)

Cast

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Tyrone Power ... Introduced by
Maureen Connell ... May Ann McMahon
May Craig
Eileen Crowe ... Police Sergeant's Wife
Cyril Cusack ... Inspector Dillon
Maureen Cusack
Maureen Delaney
Donal Donnelly ... Prisoner
Paul Farrell
Harold Goldblatt
Frank Lawton ... British officer
Edward Lexy ... Quartermaster Sergeant
Jack MacGowran ... Mickey J. - the poitín maker
Doreen Madden
Denis O'Dea ... Police Sergeant
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Runtime:
81 min
Country:
Ireland | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:S
Company:
Four Provinces more

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Irish heartbeat, 29 December 2005
Author: dbdumonteil

.A movie made of sketches.which is pretty rare in the English/Irish films,except for the horror flicks ,and in Ford's filmography;French (Duvivier) and Italians (Risi) are more familiar to that kind of stuff.

Ford's film has one great quality:his shorts become better and better.

I must confess I found the first segment pretty boring:unlike the two others ,it does not have an "universal" appeal .It is very talky and only the splendid Irish landscapes (it was filmed on location,Tyrone Power told us so in his presentation of the film)redeem it a little.

Things go much better with the second segment:one minute's wait in a tiny railway station which actually will last a very looong time.Several miniplots intermix (a mature couple going to a wedding ,a ghost story ,marriageable son and daughter ,a hockey team whose bus has broken down,a she-goat,lobsters ,and more ) and the very last picture is worthy of a Tex Avery cartoon. "The quiet man" in miniature.

Ford saved the best for the last:mainly during the first half ,he has a very fine way to blend tragedy (an Irish rebel will be hanged by the English ) and comedy (those nuns are wearing high heels!).A positive "remake" of "the informer" this segment is witty,sometimes hilarious,and even suspenseful.It ends of course with the traditional song "rising of the moon" a policeman used to sing although he found it a bit subversive.

This movie is to Ford what the album "Irish Heartbeat " is to singer Van Morrison :a work of love for his homeland.

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