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 powerfuI, action-packed drama about the Irish War of Independence starring screen great James Cagney (The Roaring Twenties, One, Two, Three). ln 1921, Kerry O’Shea (Don Murray, Bus Stop), an American medicaI student Iiving in IreIand, learns that his esteemed professor, Sean Lenihan (Cagney), is aIso a Ieader in lreIand’s rebeI army. Even though Kerry’s father and roommate have both been kiIled by British troops, he refuses to join the Irish rebelIion. 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), GIynis Johns (No Highway in the Sky), Michael Redgrave (The Night My Number Came Up), Sybil Thorndike (Stage Fright), CyriI Cusack (The Homecoming) and Richard Harris (Juggernaut) in an earIy screen roIe.
Special Features:
-Brand New 2K Master
-NEW lnterview with Actor Don Murray
-TheatricaI Trailer
-OptionaI EngIish Subtitles |