Shake Hands with the Devil (Original title)
Date: 29 June 1959 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirector: Michael Anderson
Synopsis: Period drama. A young American gets involved in the 1921 battles between the Black and Tans and the IRA, - but at last he becomes sick of all the killing and puts an end to it by shooting an IRA-leader.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Politics, Black and Tans, Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921), Ireland (geographical whole), Irish Republican Army
Date: 29 June 1959 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirector: Michael Anderson
Synopsis: Period drama. A young American gets involved in the 1921 battles between the Black and Tans and the IRA, - but at last he becomes sick of all the killing and puts an end to it by shooting an IRA-leader.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Politics, Black and Tans, Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921), Ireland (geographical whole), Irish Republican Army
Credits
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A Troy Films Production: Troy Films, [Produced] in association with: Pennebaker Productions, Executive Producer: George Glass, Executive Producer: Walter Seltzer, Produced by: Michael Anderson, Production Supervisor: Bill Kirby, Assistant Director: Chris Sutton, 2nd Assistant Director: David Tringham, Continuity: Angela Montelli, Casting Director: Robert Lennard, Screenplay by: Ivan Goff, Screenplay by: Ben Roberts, Adaptation by: Marian Thompson, From the novel by: Rearden Conner, Director of Photography: Erwin Hillier, Second Unit Photography: Eric Besche, Camera Operator: Ray Sturgess, Special Effects: Roy Whybrow, Special Effects: Cliff Richardson, Editorial Supervisor: Gordon Pilkington, Production Design: Tom Morahan, Art Direction: Tom Morahan, Set Decoration: Josie MacAvin, Ladies Costume Design: Irene Gilbert, Wardrobe Supervision: John McCorry, Make-up: Tony Szforzini, Hairdressing: Joan White, Music Composed by: William Alwyn, [Music] Played by: Sinfonia of London, [Music] Conducted by: Muir Mathieson, Sound Recording: L.B. Bulkeley, Sound Recording: J.B. Smith, Dubbing Editor: Rusty Coppleman, Sound System: Westrex Recording System, Special Military Advisor: Lt. Col. William O'Kelly, Photographed at the: Ardmore Studios
Cast
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James Cagney (Sean Lenihan), Don Murray (Kerry O'Shea), Dana Wynter (Jennifer Curtis), Glynis Johns (Kitty O'Brady), Cyril Cusack (Chris Noonan), Harry Brogan (Cassidy), John Cairney (Mike O'Callaghan), Lewis Casson (the judge), Richard Harris (Terence O'Brien), William Hartnell (Sergeant Jenkins), Niall MacGinnis (Michael O'Leary), Ray McAnally (Paddy Nolan), Clive Morton (Sir Arnold Fielding), Noel Purcell (Liam O'Sullivan), Peter Reynolds (Black and Tans captain), Christopher Rhodes (Colonel Smithson), Alan White (Captain Fleming), Marianne Benet (Mary Madigan), Michael Redgrave (The General), Sybil Thorndike (Lady Fitzhugh), John Breslin (McGrath), Robert Brown (1st sergeant Black and Tans), Christopher Casson (brigadier), Harry Corbett (Clancy), Eileen Crowe (Mrs Madigan), Allan Cuthbertson (Black and Tans captain), Donal Donnelly (Willie Lafferty), Wilfred Downing (Tommy Connor), Eithne Dunne (Eileen O'Leary), Paul Farrell (Doyle), John Le Mesurier (British general), Patrick McAlinney (Donovan), Ronald Walsh (Black and Tans sergeant), Eamonn Andrews (opening narration)