Shake Hands with the Devil

Name: Shake Hands with the Devil
Genre: Action, Drama, War, History
Released: 1959-06-24
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 6.5

★ 6,5 /10 (26 Votes)

1959 EN 111 min

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 by 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.

Stream

Release date

24/06/1959

Votes

Popularity

0.6

A story of love and hate...and the sudden sound of guns!

Genres

Action Drama War History

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

111 min

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James Cagney

Sean Lenihan

Don Murray

Kerry O'Shea

Dana Wynter

Jennifer Curtis

Glynis Johns

Kitty Brady

Michael Redgrave

The General

Sybil Thorndike

Lady Fitzhugh

Cyril Cusack

Chris Noonan

Marianne Benet

Mary Madigan

John Breslin

Timmy McGrath

Harry Brogan

Tom Cassidy

Richard Harris

Terence O'Brien

William Hartnell

Sergeant Jenkins

John Le Mesurier

British General

Niall MacGinnis

Michael O'Leary

Ray McAnally

Paddy Nolan

No photo

Patrick McAlinney

Donovan

Clive Morton

Sir Arnold Fielding

Noel Purcell

Liam O'Sullivan

Peter Reynolds

'Black & Tans' Captain

Walter Gotell

'Black & Tans' Sergeant

Robert Brown

First Sergeant 'Black & Tans'

Lewis Casson

Judge

Christopher Casson

Brigadier

John Cairney

Mike O'Callaghan

Harry H. Corbett

Clancy

Eileen Crowe

Mrs. Madigan

Allan Cuthbertson

Captain

Donal Donnelly

Willie Lafferty

No photo

Wilfred Downing

Tommy Connor

Eithne Dunne

Eileen O'Leary

Paul Farrell

Doyle

Christopher Rhodes

Colonel Smithson

No photo

Ronnie Walsh

Sergeant 'Black & Tans'

No photo

Alan White

Captain Fleming

Eamonn Andrews

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Norman Rodway

Sergeant at HQ (uncredited)

Godfrey Quigley

Soldier (uncredited)

Original Soundtrack

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Loaded Weapon. Shake Hands with the Devil is directed by Michael Anderson and adapted to screenplay by Marian Spitzer from the novel written by Rearden Conner. It stars James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns, Michael Redgrave and Sybil Thorndike. Music is by William Alywyn and cinematography by Erwin Hillier. It's 1920s Dublin, Ireland, and the Irish Republican Army are at war with the British Black & Tans. Into the conflict comes Irish American Kerry O'Shea (Murray), who in spite of being apolitical is drawn into darker waters as the violence rages. Complications arise when…

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I wonder whether an appreciation of this film depends on whether you are British or Irish? What it depicts, for me anyway, is the old adage that "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" and James Cagney ("Lenihan") manages to encapsulate that succinctly. His character, a respected professor with republican leanings, recruits "O'Shea" (Don Murray) after one of his friends is shot by one of the infamous "Black 'n Tans" and the film tracks his ensuing involvement with the 1921 revolution. The story follows a simplified line as regards to the actual nature of historical fact, but it …

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