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Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
Directed by Michael Anderson
Overview
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…under 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.
Rated NR | Length 111 minutes
Actors
James Cagney | Don Murray | Dana Wynter | Glynis Johns | Michael Redgrave | Sybil Thorndike | Cyril Cusack | Marianne Benet | John Breslin | Harry Brogan | Richard Harris | William Hartnell | John Le Mesurier | Niall MacGinnis | Ray McAnally | Patrick McAlinney | Clive Morton | Noel Purcell | Peter Reynolds | Walter Gotell | Robert Brown