Shake Hands with the Devil
Shake Hands with the Devil
Release: 1959-06-24
·Runtime: 111m
·★ 6.5
Action
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Ireland
United States of America
Production Companies
Troy Films
Pennebaker Productions
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Harry H. Corbett
as Clancy
Eamonn Andrews
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Richard Harris
as Terence O'Brien
Allan Cuthbertson
as Captain
Dana Wynter
as Jennifer Curtis
Michael Redgrave
as The General
John Breslin
as Timmy McGrath
Cyril Cusack
as Chris Noonan
Harry Brogan
as Tom Cassidy
Noel Purcell
as Liam O'Sullivan
Eileen Crowe
as Mrs. Madigan
Donal Donnelly
as Willie Lafferty
Christopher Rhodes
as Colonel Smithson
Glynis Johns
as Kitty Brady
Robert Brown
as First Sergeant 'Black & Tans'
Marianne Benet
as Mary Madigan
John Le Mesurier
as British General
Ray McAnally
as Paddy Nolan
Clive Morton
as Sir Arnold Fielding
Peter Reynolds
as 'Black & Tans' Captain
Lewis Casson
as Judge
Sybil Thorndike
as Lady Fitzhugh
William Hartnell
as Sergeant Jenkins
Niall MacGinnis
as Michael O'Leary
John Cairney
as Mike O'Callaghan
Eithne Dunne
as Eileen O'Leary
Paul Farrell
as Doyle
Norman Rodway
as Sergeant at HQ (uncredited)
James Cagney
as Sean Lenihan
Walter Gotell
as 'Black & Tans' Sergeant
Christopher Casson
as Brigadier
Godfrey Quigley
as Soldier (uncredited)
Don Murray
as Kerry O'Shea
