Railway Station Man, The (1992)

Widowed painter Helen Cuffe (Julie Christie) – whose husband was mistakenly killed in an IRA attack in Northern Ireland – moves with her son, Jack (Frank McCusker), from Londonderry to the remote Donegal coast in the Republic of Ireland to start a new life.

There, she meets eccentric American Roger Hawthorne (Donald Sutherland), who is lovingly restoring an abandoned railway despite having lost a hand in the Vietnam War. Romance blossoms, and each begins to re-discover a passion crushed by heartache.

But tragedy looms for the happy couple when Jack becomes involved with a pro-IRA “freedom fighters” who decide the railway station would make an ideal hiding place for their explosives.

This was the first time Christie and Sutherland had costarred since their 1973 triumph in Don’t Look Now.

The film aired in the UK on television under BBC2’s Screen Two banner. Shelagh Delaney wrote the screenplay based on a novel by Jennifer Johnston.

Helen Cuffe
Julie Christie
Roger Hawthorne
Donald Sutherland
Damian Sweeney
John Lynch
Jack Cuffe
Frank McCusker
Manus Dempsey
Mark Tandy
Mary Heron
Ingrid Craigie
Father Quinlan
Niall Cusack
Mrs Sweeney
Maire Hastings
Mr Hasson
Peadar Lamb
Policewoman
Ann Callanan
Policeman
Gary Walker
Young Jack Cuffe
Johnny O’Doherty Craig

Director
Michael Whyte

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