Terrific movies with an Irish brogue for a St. Patrick’s Day marathon
Another hilarious movie about a small village in Ireland where the titled character drops dead after learning he’s won the Irish lottery. The town conspires to keep his death a secret so they can collect the money. With Ian Bannen, David Kelly and Fionnula Flanagan.
Young Cassidy (1965)
John Ford began directing this film, but got sick and Jack Cardiff did the majority of the work. A touching drama starring Aussie Rod Taylor based on the life of Irish playwright Sean O’Casey, the film co-stars Maggie Smith and Julie Christie as the two women in his life.
As a stand-alone film, Retaliation is a mindless collection of action-set pieces, only one of which is visually interesting, a ninja battle that takes place with trapeze artists/soldiers flying across the face of a mountain.
"If you still want to see this movie, I have obviously not done my job."
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1. Shannon said... on Mar 14, 2012 at 08:31PM
“I'm Irish and ashamed to say I haven't seen most of these. I've only seen The Commitments.. which is brilliant! I'll make a point of watching the others. The Commitments was fantastic though, I recommend this to anybody.”