Rent Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
3.6 of 5 from 57 ratings
1h 46min
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- Synopsis:
- Starring screen legends James Cagney and Don Murray, 'Shake Hands with the Devil' is a classic thriller about bravery, honour and the never-ending fight for freedom and equality. When a classmate and secret IRA member is murdered a young medical student is thrown into the chaos of a world he thought he had left behind with his dead father. Soon he becomes embroiled in a series of plots to overthrow the hated Black and Tans, but as the possibility of peace mounts so do the group's desperate, bloodthirsty measures. As the tension mounts and the rebels begin to turn on each other only death will bring the solution they need...
- Actors:
- James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns, Michael Redgrave, Sybil Thorndike, Cyril Cusack, Marianne Benet, John Breslin, Harry Brogan, Robert Brown, Lewis Casson, Christopher Casson, John Cairney, Harry H. Corbett, Eileen Crowe, Allan Cuthbertson, Donal Donnelly, Wilfred Downing, Eithne Dunne
- Directors:
- Michael Anderson
- Producers:
- Michael Anderson, Troy Pennebaker
- Writers:
- Rearden Conner, Marian Spitzer, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
- Studio:
- Metrodome
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Glynis & Angela: Ninetysomething Marvels, Top 10 British Actresses of the 1940s, Top Films
- Countries:
- Ireland
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