A Terrible Beauty (1960)

Directors

Tay Garnett

Cast

Robert Mitchum, Richard Harris, Anne Heywood, Dan O'Herlihy

The story

Dermot O'Neill is recruited into the Irish Republican Army (IRA) when a unit is formed in his Northern Ireland town during World War II. Reaction to the news is mixed; his mother is strongly against it while his father is proud. Dermot's brother Ned and sister Bella are ambivalent, but his girlfriend Neeve Donnelly ends their relationship, believing that the IRA will make a murderer of him.

Genres

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