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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
Robert Brown
First Sergeant 'Black & Tans'
John Le Mesurier
British General
Glynis Johns
Kitty Brady
Walter Gotell
'Black & Tans' Sergeant
James Cagney
Sean Lenihan
William Hartnell
Sergeant Jenkins
Dana Wynter
Jennifer Curtis
Cyril Cusack
Chris Noonan
Niall MacGinnis
Michael O'Leary
Allan Cuthbertson
Captain
Clive Morton
Sir Arnold Fielding
Michael Redgrave
The General
Don Murray
Kerry O'Shea
Harry H. Corbett
Clancy
Ray McAnally
Paddy Nolan
Norman Rodway
Sergeant at HQ (uncredited)
Christopher Rhodes
Colonel Smithson
Donal Donnelly
Willie Lafferty
Lewis Casson
Judge
Godfrey Quigley
Soldier (uncredited)
Noel Purcell
Liam O'Sullivan
Peter Reynolds
'Black & Tans' Captain
John Cairney
Mike O'Callaghan
Paul Farrell
Doyle
John Breslin
Timmy McGrath
Eileen Crowe
Mrs. Madigan
Harry Brogan
Tom Cassidy
Sybil Thorndike
Lady Fitzhugh
Eithne Dunne
Eileen O'Leary
Eamonn Andrews
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Marianne Benet
Mary Madigan
Christopher Casson
Brigadier
Patrick McAlinney
Donovan
Wilfred Downing
Tommy Connor
Ronnie Walsh
Sergeant 'Black & Tans'
Alan White
Captain Fleming
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