Young Cassidy (1965)

Directors

Jack Cardiff

Cast

Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith, Michael Redgrave, Flora Robson, Edith Evans

The story

Set in 1911 and the growing protest against British rule in Ireland, young John Cassidy (Seán O'Casey) is a labourer by day and a pamphleteer by night. When the pamphlets he has written incite riots, Cassidy realizes he can do more for his people with the pen than with the sword. He writes a new play, The Plough and the Stars, which he submits to the Abbey Theatre (which had already rejected another of his plays, The Shadow of a Gunman), and is surprised when W.

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