Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)

Directors

Michael Anderson

Cast

James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns

The story

Irish-American Kerry O'Shea is studying at the College of Surgeons in 1921 Dublin, Ireland, during the Irish War of Independence. Apolitical and sick of killing after fighting in World War I, he is drawn into the struggle between the outlaw Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the British Black and Tans. He and his friend and fellow medical student, Paddy Nolan, are caught in the middle of an IRA ambush, and Nolan is shot by the British.

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