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Overview
Release Date:
17 December 1970 (West Germany) moreTagline:
A story of love...set against the violence of rebellion morePlot:
World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy goes horseback... more | add synopsisAwards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 19 nominations moreUser Comments:
Human longing for life, bare and simple on the screen moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Robert Mitchum | ... | Charles Shaughnessy | |
| Trevor Howard | ... | Father Collins | |
| Christopher Jones | ... | Randolph Doryan | |
| John Mills | ... | Michael | |
| Leo McKern | ... | Thomas Ryan | |
| Sarah Miles | ... | Rosy Ryan | |
| Barry Foster | ... | Tim O'Leary | |
| Marie Kean | ... | Mrs. McCardle | |
| Arthur O'Sullivan | ... | Mr. McCardle | |
| Evin Crowley | ... | Maureen | |
| Douglas Sheldon | ... | Driver | |
| Gerald Sim | ... | Captain | |
| Barry Jackson | ... | Corporal | |
| Des Keogh | ... | Lanky private | |
| Niall Toibin | ... | O'Keefe |
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Rated R for a sex scene.Parents Guide:
Add content advisory for parentsRuntime:
206 min (roadshow/DVD version) | 195 min (general release version)Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishColour:
Colour (Metrocolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)Certification:
UK:15 (video rating) | Iceland:16 | UK:AA (original rating) | West Germany:16 (f) | Singapore:M18 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:11 | USA:GP (original rating) | USA:R (re-rating)MOVIEmeter: 
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The village of "Kirrary" was built just for the film and dismantled afterwards -- shops, schoolhouse, church, pub, post office, etc. 200 workmen built it all using slate and 20,000 tons of granite from a dozen local quarries; anything less substantial wouldn't have stood up to the Atlantic gales. Many buildings had fitted interiors, ceilings, lighting, plumbing and even working fireplaces and chimneys. moreGoofs:
Anachronisms: Father Collins wears a traditional black garment with white "dog collar" but apparently in the period this film was set, the law forbad a catholic priest to dress this way. moreQuotes:
Mrs. McCardle: [on Rosy] There's loose women, and there's whores... and there's British soldier's whores! moreFAQ
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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.