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    Quare Fellow, The (1962)

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    Thomas Crimmins (Patrick McGoohan) is a new guard at Mountjoy, an Irish prison. He is young and idealistic and determined to serve his country by meting out justice to criminals (his job involves assisting at executions).

    His superior, Regan (Walter Macken), however, realises that even prisoners are human beings and is sick of the “eye-for-an-eye” attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men.

    Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen (Sylvia Syms), the wife of one of the condemned men – the “quare fellow” who remains unseen throughout the film – his attitude begins to change.

    When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen’s husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.

    The atmosphere is depressing but the performances are wonderful, and the film is remarkably unsentimental and wholly just in its argumentative implications.

    The prison scenes were filmed at Dublin’s Kilmainham Gaol, which is no longer operational.

    Thomas Crimmin
    Patrick McGoohan
    Kathleen
    Sylvia Syms
    Regan
    Walter Macken
    Donnelly
    Dermot Kelly
    Chief Warder
    Jack Cunningham
    Holy Healy
    Hilton Edwards
    Prison Governor
    Philip O’Flynn
    Doctor Flyn
    Leo McCabe
    Lavery
    Norman Rodway
    Mrs O’Hara
    Marie Kean
    Mickser’s Wife
    Pauline Delaney
    Mickser
    Robert Bernal
    Poet
    Joseph O’Donnell
    Meg
    Agnes Bernelle
    Minna
    Iris Lawler
    Jenkinson
    Brian Hewitt-Jones
    Silvertop
    Aubrey Morris
    Flaherty
    Eamonn Brennan
    Kelly
    Gerry Alexander
    Walsh
    T.P. McKenna
    Dunlavin
    Harry Brogan
    O’Connor
    James Caffrey
    Cleary
    John Cowley
    Carroll
    John Welsh
    Clancy
    Frank O’Donovan
    O’Shaughnessy
    Desmond O’Neill
    Lavery’s Assistant
    Celia Salkeld

    Director
    Arthur Dreifuss

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