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Shake Hands with the Devil
1959, Jun 24
1h 51m
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization by his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.
Directed by
Michael Anderson
Written by
Ben Roberts, Ivan Goff
Richard Harris
Terence O'Brien
James Cagney
Sean Lenihan
Glynis Johns
Kitty Brady
Dana Wynter
Jennifer Curtis
Don Murray
Kerry O'Shea
John Le Mesurier
British General
Walter Gotell
'Black & Tans' Sergeant
Michael Redgrave
The General
William Hartnell
Sergeant Jenkins
Cyril Cusack
Chris Noonan
John Cairney
Mike O'Callaghan
Robert Brown
First Sergeant 'Black & Tans'
Noel Purcell
Liam O'Sullivan
Godfrey Quigley
Soldier (uncredited)
Niall MacGinnis
Michael O'Leary
Ray McAnally
Paddy Nolan
Allan Cuthbertson
Captain
Christopher Rhodes
Colonel Smithson
Harry H. Corbett
Clancy
Norman Rodway
Sergeant at HQ (uncredited)
Eamonn Andrews
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Peter Reynolds
'Black & Tans' Captain
Sybil Thorndike
Lady Fitzhugh
Donal Donnelly
Willie Lafferty
Eileen Crowe
Mrs. Madigan
Marianne Benet
Mary Madigan
Harry Brogan
Tom Cassidy
Clive Morton
Sir Arnold Fielding
John Breslin
Timmy McGrath
Lewis Casson
Judge
Paul Farrell
Doyle
Christopher Casson
Brigadier
Eithne Dunne
Eileen O'Leary
Patrick McAlinney
Donovan
Wilfred Downing
Tommy Connor
Ronnie Walsh
Sergeant 'Black & Tans'
Alan White
Captain Fleming
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