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Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
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24 June 1959 (USA)
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In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures....
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An okay story.
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | James Cagney | ... | Sean Lenihan |
 | Don Murray | ... | Kerry O'Shea |
 | Dana Wynter | ... | Jennifer Curtis |
 | Glynis Johns | ... | Kitty Brady |
| Michael Redgrave | ... | The General |
| Sybil Thorndike | ... | Lady Fitzhugh |
| Cyril Cusack | ... | Chris Noonan |
| Marianne Benet | ... | Mary Madigan |
 | John Breslin | ... | Timmy McGrath |
| Harry Brogan | ... | Tom Cassidy |
| Robert Brown | ... | First Sergeant 'Black & Tans' |
| Lewis Casson | ... | Judge |
| Christopher Casson | ... | Brigadier |
| John Cairney | ... | Mike O'Callaghan |
| Harry H. Corbett | ... | Clancy (as Harry Corbett) |
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111 min
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A reasonably good thriller about the so-called "Tan War". The acting is uniformly excellent, although the story has been altered from the original novel. If I had any major complaints, they would be that the Auxiliaries (called uniformly Black & Tans by the Irish) are pictured as too befuddled and they're just too stereotypically, comically menacing. And in the final shootout just before the Truce, Cagney and Company kill more of them then were killed during the entire Rebellion. A much more realistic, menacing portrayal of the Auxies can be found in John Ford's "The Informer" (1935).
Also, Glynis Johns hairstyle is way too 1950s, and she's just a little too Irish from County Baloney.
Other than that, it's a very good movie.