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Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
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24 June 1959 (USA) morePlot:
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures.... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Richard Harris Too moreCast
(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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This is also the first movie role for Richard Harris. He is easily recognizable as one of the IRA gunmen and makes a dramatic suicide stand against the British on the dockside. No idea why he is not mentioned in the database credits, but it is worth mentioning. He plays a lean, mean Irish tough in the pub scene and on the dockside at the shootout. It is because of the Richard Harris character that the hero is captured alive. It is easy to recognize Richard Harris in the movie by his voice and his face, but his youth and apparent physical strength is surprising, given how he has slimmed with age. I hope that this brief comment will alert the interested movie goer to look for Richard Harris in the movie and see all of the elements of his style, which are repeated in countless movies later.