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