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The Violent Enemy (Original title)A Candle for the Dead (Working title)Came the Hero (Alternative title)
Date: 1969 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Don Sharp

Synopsis: IRA member breaks gaol, and is then involved in scheme to blow up electronics factory back in Ireland.

Genre:
Drama
Credits (16)
Production Company: Trio Films, Production Company: Group W Films, Executive Producer: William Gell, Producer: Wilfrid Eades, Production Manager: John Bremer, Assistant Director: Barry Langley, [3rd Assistant Director]: Brian Bilgorri, Screenplay: Edmund Ward, Based on the novel 'A Candle for the Dead' by: Hugh Marlowe, Director of Photography: Alan Hume, Editor: Thom Noble, Art Director: Michael Wield, Music composed and conducted: Patrick John Scott, Sound Recording: Maurice Askew, Sound: Wally Nelson
Cast (16)
Tom Bell (Sean Rogan), Susan Hampshire (Hannah Costello), Ed Begley (Colum O'More), Noel Purcell (John Michael Leary), Jon Laurimore (Austin), Michael Standing (Fletcher), Philip O'Flynn (Inspector Sullivan), Owen Sullivan, Dervis Ward, Desmond Perry, Fred Johnson, Ronnie Walsh, Dan Geraghty, Martin Dempsey, John Cahill, Tom Irwin