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The Outsider (1980)

Directed by Tony Luraschi

Overview

Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he’s the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.

Rated R | Length 128 minutes

Actors

Craig Wasson | Sterling Hayden | Patricia Quinn | Niall O'Brien | T. P. McKenna | Niall Toibin | Frank Grimes | Elizabeth Begley | Bosco Hogan | Ray McAnally | J.G. Devlin | Joe Dowling | Aiden Grennell | Joe McPartland | Des Cave | Joe Lynch | David Collings | Allan Cuthbertson | Geoffrey Palmer | Paul Antrim | Conal Kearney | Johnny Murphy | Des Nealon | Edward Byrne | Bill Foley | Martin Dempsey | Pat Leavy | Derek Young | Charles Mitchell | Jimmy Greeley | Tony Phipps | Martin Short | Annie D'Alton | Derek Lord | Gerry Alexander | Emmet Bergin | Patricia Alice Albrecht | Avril Gentles | John Seitz | John Paul Leeming | Gabriel Byrne