From Michael Anderson, the maverick director of The Dam Busters, Around the World in 80 Days, The Quiller Memorandum, Logan’s Run and The Martian Chronicles, comes this powerful, action-packed drama about the Irish War of lndependence starring screen great James Cagney (The Roaring Twenties, One, Two, Three). In 1921, Kerry O’Shea (Don Murray, Bus Stop), an American medical student Iiving in lreland, Iearns that his esteemed professor, Sean Lenihan (Cagney), is aIso a leader in lreland’s rebeI army. Even though Kerry’s father and roommate have both been kiIled by British troops, he refuses to join the Irish rebellion. However, after Kerry is unjustly imprisoned and tortured by the British "Black and Tans," he fuIly commits himseIf to the cause of lrish freedom. Based on the 1933 noveI by Rearden Conner, Shake Hands with the DeviI features fine support from Dana Wynter (lnvasion of the Body Snatchers), Glynis Johns (No Highway in the Sky), MichaeI Redgrave (The Night My Number Came Up), SybiI Thorndike (Stage Fright), CyriI Cusack (The Homecoming) and Richard Harris (Juggernaut) in an early screen roIe.
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-Brand New 2K Master
-NEW lnterview with Actor Don Murray
-Theatrical TraiIer
-OptionaI EngIish SubtitIes |