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Ryan's Daughter

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  • 3h 20m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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Ryan's Daughter (1970)
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Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
10K
YOUR RATING
    • David Lean
    • Robert Bolt(original screenplay by)
  • Stars
    • Robert Mitchum
    • Trevor Howard
    • John Mills
    • David Lean
    • Robert Bolt(original screenplay by)
  • Stars
    • Robert Mitchum
    • Trevor Howard
    • John Mills
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 140User reviews
    • 47Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 2 Oscars

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    John Mills in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
    John Mills in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
    Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Leo McKern, and Sarah Miles in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
    Robert Mitchum and Sarah Miles in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
    Robert Mitchum, David Lean, and Sarah Miles in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
    Douglas Sheldon in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
    Christopher Jones and Sarah Miles in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
    Christopher Jones and Sarah Miles in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
    Christopher Jones and Sarah Miles in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
    Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Barry Jackson, Leo McKern, and Arthur O'Sullivan in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
    Robert Mitchum and Sarah Miles in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
    l to r: Freddie Young, Christopher Jones, Jonathan Burrows

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    Robert Mitchum
    Robert Mitchum
    • Charles
    Trevor Howard
    Trevor Howard
    • Father Collins
    John Mills
    John Mills
    • Michael
    Christopher Jones
    Christopher Jones
    • Major Doryan
    Leo McKern
    Leo McKern
    • Thomas Ryan
    Sarah Miles
    Sarah Miles
    • Rosy
    Barry Foster
    Barry Foster
    • Tim O'Leary
    Marie Kean
    Marie Kean
    • Mrs. McCardle
    Arthur O'Sullivan
    • Mr. McCardle
    Evin Crowley
    Evin Crowley
    • Moureen
    Douglas Sheldon
    Douglas Sheldon
    • Driver
    Gerald Sim
    Gerald Sim
    • Captain
    Barry Jackson
    Barry Jackson
    • Corporal
    Des Keogh
    • Lanky Private
    Niall Toibin
    Niall Toibin
    • O'Keefe
    Philip O'Flynn
    • Paddy
    Donal Neligan
    • Moureen's Boyfriend
    Brian O'Higgins
    • Constable O'Connor
      • David Lean
      • Robert Bolt(original screenplay by)
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    • Trivia
      As problematic as the production was, Robert Mitchum said that he felt his performance in the movie ranked amongst his best, that Sir David Lean was one of the best directors with whom he had worked, and that he regretted the movie was so poorly received.
    • Goofs
      As he is driving Major Doryan to the camp, the corporal asks him if he had been in the Second Battle of the Marne. The Second Battle of the Marne was fought in July and August of 1918 near the end of WWI while events in Ryan's Daughter are set in 1916 not long after the Easter Rising.
    • Quotes

      Father Collins: Don't nurse your dreams, Rosy. You can't help having them, but don't nurse them. Because if you nurse your dreams, they tend to come true.

    • Alternate versions
      The general release version omits the Overture, Intermission, and Exit Music, bringing the running time down to 195 minutes. The roadshow version is what appears on most laserdisc and VHS releases, along with the DVD version.
    • Connections
      Edited into Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      Mary of the Curling Hair
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    User reviews140

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    Human longing for life, bare and simple on the screen
    I love this movie. Saw it again last night on the big, wide screen at the Astor, from a beautiful new print. There is much to deserve love: the artistry of the film making; unspeakably fine cinematography; superb use of music and sound (hearing nothing but the wind in the trees during the forest scene is breathlessly sensual); and major and minor characters who each in their own way reflect the eternal enigma of human longing for life and transcendence. The film's evocation of human lives caught up in the inexorable forces of nature and history at this particular moment and place is profoundly arresting. There's a timelessness about this movie which makes the criticisms I've heard - about miscasting, stiff acting and the like - melt away into irrelevance, or even shows them to be virtues. I love the way the film maintains narrative integrity but has a foreordained, mythical quality as well: the overwhelming, all-penetrating power of nature and fate seems to make the human doings at once piercingly real and immediate, yet disconnected, almost surreal. But the touches of humour and sharp, immediate visual detail (often wittily drawn from the visual history of paintings and caricatures of village life) save us from any kind of authorial portent or angst: the greatest wonder of this artful work is that there is nothing between us and the story, except perhaps the icy whip of the ocean wind gainst our faces. The range of characters both in kind and in how we experience them is enlivening - from the formidably down to earth Father Collins, to the captivatingly tragic and symbolic figure of Doryan. And Michael the retarded angel is the ultimate figure of grace.
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    • lfsutherland
    • Dec 16, 1999

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    • Release date
      • December 10, 1970 (United Kingdom)
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
      • Warner Bros. (United States)
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland
    • Production companies
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
      • Faraway Productions
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    • 3 hours 20 minutes
      • Color

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