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