A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.
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- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: The spring of 1916 found a divided Ireland, torn by conflicting Loyalties. Thousands of her sons were at the front fighting the cause of England in the World War. Other thousands remained home planning another fight---a fight, under the flag of the Plough and the Stars, to free their country so that Ireland could take its place among the nations of the world.
DUBLIN - IRELAND
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Making of 'The Quiet Man' (1992)
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Ford's "Plough & the Stars" ('36) -- a powerful period piece
If you like Ireland, Irish history & literature, the traditions of the Irish people & the ambiguous creation of the Irish nation -- what's not to like about this movie? Sure, now, it's more John Ford than Sean O'Casey. But what would you be expectin from John Ford at the height of his creative spirit -- four years before he filmed "Grapes of Wrath"? Almost everyone in this movie plays their part with pungent efficiency. It's old-fashioned acting of the best sort. As movie, this is much more cinema of ideas, of belief & revolution, of theater, of language & gesture & non-verbal communication -- than our contemporary cinema of special effects and technicolor sensations. This movie is political entertainment of a very fine order; with as much said by the words as by what is shown. But how many people alive now can relate to it with the potency it must of had back in the 1930s?
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- May 31, 2010
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By what name was The Plough and the Stars (1936) officially released in Canada in English?
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