This Other Eden (film)
| This Other Eden | |
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| Directed by | Muriel Box |
| Produced by |
Muriel Box Alec C. Snowden |
| Written by |
Blanaid Irvine Patrick Kirwan |
| Based on | the Abbey Theatre play by Louis D'alton |
| Starring |
Audrey Dalton Leslie Phillips Niall MacGinnis Geoffrey Golden |
| Music by | Lambert Williamson |
| Cinematography | Gerald Gibbs |
| Edited by | Henry Richardson |
Production company |
Emmett Dalton Productions |
| Distributed by | Regal Films International (UK) |
Release dates |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | Ireland |
This Other Eden is a 1959 Irish comedy drama film directed by Muriel Box and starring Audrey Dalton, Leslie Phillips and Niall MacGinnis.[1]
Synopsis
A small Irish provincial town wants to erect a statue to an Irish Republican Army (IRA) man, killed during the Irish War for Independence. However, the son of the Colonel who killed the rebel objects.
Cast
- Audrey Dalton as Maire McRoarty
- Leslie Phillips as Crispin Brown
- Niall MacGinnis as Devereaux
- Geoffrey Golden as McRoarty
- Norman Rodway as Conor Heaphy
- Milo O'Shea as Pat Tweedy
- Harry Brogan as Clannery
- Paul Farrell as McNeely
- Eddie Golden as Sergeant Crilly
- Hilton Edwards as The Canon
- Philip O'Flynn as Postman
- Ria Mooney as Mother Superior
- Isobel Couser as Mrs. O'Flaherty
Critical reception
TV Guide noted, "this unlikely subject for a comedy is slanted in favor of the British" ; [2] while David Parkinson in the Radio Times called it "a curious film for Leslie Phillips to find himself in, this is an overwrought tale about the emotions that erupt when the statue of a long-dead IRA hero is blown up in the square of a sleepy Irish village....Phillips is fine...He is adequately supported by Audrey Dalton as his lover and Norman Rodway...but the film lacks the power of such Hollywood lynch dramas as Fritz Lang's Fury or William A Wellman's The Ox-Bow Incident." [3]
References
- ↑ "This Other Eden (1959)". BFI.
- ↑ "This Other Eden". TVGuide.com.
- ↑ David Parkinson. "This Other Eden". RadioTimes.