Nel 1941, nel Regno Unito in tempo di guerra, due fratelli irlandesi che lavorano per l'I.R.A. si scontrano con i metodi spietati del loro leader locale.Nel 1941, nel Regno Unito in tempo di guerra, due fratelli irlandesi che lavorano per l'I.R.A. si scontrano con i metodi spietati del loro leader locale.Nel 1941, nel Regno Unito in tempo di guerra, due fratelli irlandesi che lavorano per l'I.R.A. si scontrano con i metodi spietati del loro leader locale.
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Jack MacGowran
- Patsy McGuire
- (as Jack McGowran)
Terence Alexander
- Ship's Officer
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Harry Brogan
- Barney
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Edward Byrne
- Ambulance Attendant
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Patric Doonan
- Sentry
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Stephen Dunne
- Brennan
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Harry Hutchinson
- Bill - Detective
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
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- QuizQuote: Englishman: "The situation in England is serious, but it's never hopeless" Irishman: "The situation in Ireland is hopeless, but it's never serious" .
- BlooperThe car which is used to escape after the shootout with the prison vehicle has different number plates front and back. DZ 7563 on the front and ZC 6034 on the rear.It has the DZ plate when the arrives at the scene. DZ would be a Co Antrim registration, ZC would be Dublin.
It appears that two different cars were used as the Northern car also has an extra spotlight on the front and no padlock on the wiper.
- Curiosità sui creditiOpening credits prologue: NORTHERN IRELAND 1941
- ConnessioniFeatured in Century of Cinema: Ourselves Alone? (1995)
- Colonne sonoreMoonshiner
(uncredited)
Traditional
Arranged by Delia Murphy
Recensione in evidenza
Ealing take on the Irish Troubles.
Directed by Basil Dearden and adapted to screenplay from his own play by Roger MacDougal, The Gentle Gunman finds John Mills and Dirk Bogarde as brothers in the IRA circa 1941. Matt (Bogarde) is the young and hungry in the name of the cause brother, Terence (Mills) has grown tired of the violence and questions the IRA's methods. This puts a strain on their relationship, whilst it also puts Terence on a collision course with the IRA superiors who brand him as a traitor.
The Irish Troubles has never been an easy subject to broach in movies, the political stand point of the film makers invariably leaning towards bias. Whilst critics and reviewers have to battle with their own convictions when trying to stay firmly on the fence. The Gentle Gunman is an attempt at being an anti violence movie, one with a "gentle" pro British slant from that most British of film studios, Ealing. Unfortunately it's tonally all over the place, awash with a mixed bunch of characters that range from apparent comic relief, to rabid Irish terrorists and a town crier like British bigot. Things are further put into the realm of the unbelievable by Mills and Bogarde trying to hold down Irish accents, a shame because without the fluctuation of the vocal chords the performances are rather good.
It's also a bit too stagey and the pace often drags itself into a stupor, making the adequate action scenes act more as a merciful release than anything truly exciting. On the plus side the film looks amazing at times, with Gordon Dines (The Blue Lamp) on cinematography dealing firmly in film noir filters. Which goes some way to explain how the film has come to be in a couple of reference books about British noir. But really it's a marginal entry and all told it's just a routine drama from a Studio who were much better in other genre spheres. 6/10
The Irish Troubles has never been an easy subject to broach in movies, the political stand point of the film makers invariably leaning towards bias. Whilst critics and reviewers have to battle with their own convictions when trying to stay firmly on the fence. The Gentle Gunman is an attempt at being an anti violence movie, one with a "gentle" pro British slant from that most British of film studios, Ealing. Unfortunately it's tonally all over the place, awash with a mixed bunch of characters that range from apparent comic relief, to rabid Irish terrorists and a town crier like British bigot. Things are further put into the realm of the unbelievable by Mills and Bogarde trying to hold down Irish accents, a shame because without the fluctuation of the vocal chords the performances are rather good.
It's also a bit too stagey and the pace often drags itself into a stupor, making the adequate action scenes act more as a merciful release than anything truly exciting. On the plus side the film looks amazing at times, with Gordon Dines (The Blue Lamp) on cinematography dealing firmly in film noir filters. Which goes some way to explain how the film has come to be in a couple of reference books about British noir. But really it's a marginal entry and all told it's just a routine drama from a Studio who were much better in other genre spheres. 6/10
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- 4 mag 2014
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- Data di uscita
- Paese di origine
- Lingua
- Celebre anche come
- Bombe im U-Bahn-Schacht
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Ealing Studios, Ealing, Londra, Inghilterra, Regno Unito(studio: made at Ealing Studios, London, England.)
- Aziende produttrici
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- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 26 minuti
- Colore
- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Gentle Gunman (1952) officially released in India in English?
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