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Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20227/10
This is very much an example of less is more from Carol Reed. James Mason is super as ("Johnny") who leads an IRA cell that decides to rob a textile mill to secure continued funding for their operations. As they make good their escape, he is shot, seriously wounded and has to try to secure medical care whilst being pursued by a determined constabulary and by his loving gal "Kathleen" (Kathleen Ryan). What helps this film to stand out, it that it attempts to deal in a far more sophisticated fashion with the goings-on, brutal at times from both sides, as the net tightens around the fugitive. The characters - especially a superb Robert Newton ("Lukey") - add oodles to the gritty realism of this struggle to escape and to pursue, as does the eery Belfast photography and the snow. How effective is the snow!? The dialogue is sparing, much of the performance - and our appreciation thereof - relies on the gently evolving storyline with Mason doing much of the heavy lifting as he lurches around his city seeking help and safety. Reed doesn't take sides - we must draw our own conclusions, and that isn't an easy thing to do - that's another clever aspect of this production. At times it is quite
Read the whole review on TMDB - John Chardon TMDB · Nov 20139/10
That's the duty of all of us. Johnny McQueen is an IRA leader who breaks out of prison and for 6 months hides out at the house of adoring Kathleen. Here he plots a robbery of a Belfast mill to fund his underground organisation, the robbery doesn't go to plan and Johnny kills a man in a struggle outside the mill, he himself is shot and fails to make the getaway with his accomplices... If ever there was a film that defines the statement of film on canvass then this is it, it's a gorgeous piece of work relying on striking imagery and dialogue driven smartness to realise the demise of Johnny McQueen. We watch (and listen intensely) as Johnny lurches through the back streets of Belfast knowing he is dying, he has most of the city looking for him, be it the law, or friends, or those that want to cash in on him, his destiny is not so much carved in stone, but more like written in blood in the snow. The amazing feeling I got with this film is that I felt like I was dying as well, and I think that is one of the film's great strengths, director Carol Reed and cinematographer Robert Krasker put you into the mindset of McQueen, the doom hangs heavy, the distortion and hallucinogenic free fall
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Cast
- James MasonJohnny McQueen
- Robert NewtonLukey
- Cyril CusackPat
- F.J. McCormickShell
- Kathleen RyanKathleen Sullivan
- William HartnellFencie - the barman
- Fay ComptonRosie
- W.G. FayFather Tom
- Denis O'DeaInspector
- Maureen DelaneyTheresa O'Brien
Crew
- Carol ReedDirector
- R.C. SherriffScreenplay
- F.L. GreenWriter
- Robert KraskerDirector of Photography
- William AlwynOriginal Music Composer
- Fergus McDonellEditor
- Carol ReedProducer
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