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Shake Hands with the Devil

6.6 111 mins Action   Drama   War   History   1959
Troy Films   Pennebaker Productions  
Director(s): Michael Anderson

Release Date: 24 Wed, Jun 1959

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization by his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.

Casts of Shake Hands with the Devil

James Cagney

as Sean Lenihan

Don Murray

as Kerry O'Shea

Dana Wynter

as Jennifer Curtis

Glynis Johns

as Kitty Brady

Michael Redgrave

as The General

Sybil Thorndike

as Lady Fitzhugh

Cyril Cusack

as Chris Noonan

Marianne Benet

as Mary Madigan

John Breslin

as Timmy McGrath

Harry Brogan

as Tom Cassidy

Richard Harris

as Terence O'Brien

William Hartnell

as Sergeant Jenkins

John Le Mesurier

as British General

Niall MacGinnis

as Michael O'Leary

Ray McAnally

as Paddy Nolan

Patrick McAlinney

as Donovan

Clive Morton

as Sir Arnold Fielding

Noel Purcell

as Liam O'Sullivan

Peter Reynolds

as 'Black & Tans' Captain

Walter Gotell

as 'Black & Tans' Sergeant

Robert Brown

as First Sergeant 'Black & Tans'

Lewis Casson

as Judge

Christopher Casson

as Brigadier

John Cairney

as Mike O'Callaghan

Harry H. Corbett

as Clancy

Eileen Crowe

as Mrs. Madigan

Allan Cuthbertson

as Captain

Donal Donnelly

as Willie Lafferty

Wilfred Downing

as Tommy Connor

Eithne Dunne

as Eileen O'Leary

Paul Farrell

as Doyle

Christopher Rhodes

as Colonel Smithson

Ronnie Walsh

as Sergeant 'Black & Tans'

Alan White

as Captain Fleming

Eamonn Andrews

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Norman Rodway

as Sergeant at HQ (uncredited)

Godfrey Quigley

as Soldier (uncredited)

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