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