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A pennsylvania company plants a spy among an irish coal miners secret society of saboteurs. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/22/2005 Starring: Sean Connery Samantha Eggar Run time: 124 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Martin Ritt
An expensive box-office flop when released in 1970, The Molly Maguires can now be appreciated as a compelling drama with potent political undertones. The talent involved is first-rate all the way: In addition to the volatile teaming of Sean Connery and Richard Harris on opposite sides of a Pennsylvania miners' war, director Martin Ritt and screenwriter Walter Bernstein were at the heigh
A pennsylvania company plants a spy among an irish coal miners secret society of saboteurs. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/22/2005 Starring: Sean Connery Samantha Eggar Run time: 124 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Martin Ritt
An expensive box-office flop when released in 1970, The Molly Maguires can now be appreciated as a compelling drama with potent political undertones. The talent involved is first-rate all the way: In addition to the volatile teaming of Sean Connery and Richard Harris on opposite sides of a Pennsylvania miners' war, director Martin Ritt and screenwriter Walter Bernstein were at the height of their Hollywood powers, determined to give viewers a visceral, grittily authentic drama about the exploitation of Irish immigrant miners in the centennial America of 1876. Connery's secret gang, the Molly Maguires, retaliates by destroying mines and equipment; Harris infiltrates the group as an informer hired by the coal-company owners, leading to his inevitable crisis of conscience. Pub brawls and manly action give the film its meat-and-potatoes appeal, and discerning viewers will appreciate the story's careful pacing and moral ambiguity; ironically, those qualities were blamed for the film's commercial failure. --Jeff Shannon
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Manufacturer: Paramount
Release date: 27 April 2004
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780792197423 UPC: 097360690545
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