Cinematography:
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Ryan is a virgin made pregnant by Bogarde, a footman in the household where Ryan is a maid. He offers to marry her, but at the last minute vanishes with another girl. After years of wandering about trying to scrape together a living for her son, she meets Bogarde again, now a prosperous bookie. They marry and live happily for a while, but Bogarde, now ill, bets their life's savings on a horse and dies, never knowing that his horse lost and his widow and orphan are again reduced to poverty. A well-done but melancholy costume drama from the book by the Irish playwright and critic George Moore, a cofounder of the theater group that led to the famous Abbey Theatre. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Kathleen Ryan
Ireland
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Odd Man Out (1947)
Captain Lightfoot (1955)
The Sound of Fury (1950)
Dirk Bogarde
UK
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The Password is Courage (1962)
Un pont trop loin (1977)
The Damned (1969)
Cyril Cusack
South Africa
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The Day of the Jackal (1973)
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Harold and Maude (1971)
Pauline Jameson
UK
Best movies:
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Night Watch (1973)
Murder Most Foul (1964)
Mary Clare
UK
Best movies:
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