This adaptation of Sean O’Casey’s play by director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville was lauded by the critics but Hitchcock was dissatisfied with the finished film. During the Dublin uprising, an impoverished family stand to receive an inheritance but things do not go as planned and the money does not come through. Their daughter is soon to give birth to an illegitmate child and their son is accused of being an informer.
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ACMI Identifier
306790
Language
English
Audience classification
PG
Subject categories
Feature films → Feature films - Great Britain
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)