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Young Cassidy

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Based on the early life of Irish playwright and notorious socialist Sean O'Casey, the film follows O'Casey through the sordid underbelly of Dublin where he gets his first taste of the social injustices that would later inspire his work. Along the way he joins strikes, runs afoul of local law enforcement and has a relationship with prostitute Daisy Battles. Eventually O'Casey meets bookshop assistant Nora who helps channel his rage into the theater.

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Joan Didion Vogue 03/11/2020
I think I have never seen anything sillier. Go to Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 03/22/2017
B-
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Barry H 03/18/2024 Wonderfully directed historical film about the Irish playwright Seán O'Casey with great performances by Rod Taylor and Maggie Smith. Michael Redgrave is great as W.B. Yeats. Julie Christie plays a small role at the beginning of the 1965 movie. See more 12/26/2019 One of John Ford's finest. This 1965 biopic of Irish playwright and social activist Sean O'Casey is a joy to watch, and full of the colorful characters only John Ford could create. It stars the vastly underrated Rod Taylor along with Julie Christie and a very young Maggie Smith. It's about love, loss, poverty and rebellion as seen through the eyes of a young playwright (called John Cassidy in this film). See more s r @ScottR 03/21/2015 Could've been much better, but it still had some great powerful moments. It just felt like it was forced, like all the coincidences just happen to fall on him so that he would have this epiphany. It was prolly my favorite Rod Taylor movie though. See more 03/31/2014 correction john ford did not direct this only produced it it being an well acted bio-pic also year is not 2012 but 1965. See more 12/21/2012 In this 1965 production, Rod Taylor plays the playwright Sean O'Casey in his youth. Maggie Smith plays Lady Gregory. See more Read all reviews
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Jack Cardiff

Director

John Ford

Director

Rod Taylor

John Cassidy

Maggie Smith

Nora

Julie Christie

Daisy Battles

Flora Robson

Mrs. Cassidy
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Synopsis Based on the early life of Irish playwright and notorious socialist Sean O'Casey, the film follows O'Casey through the sordid underbelly of Dublin where he gets his first taste of the social injustices that would later inspire his work. Along the way he joins strikes, runs afoul of local law enforcement and has a relationship with prostitute Daisy Battles. Eventually O'Casey meets bookshop assistant Nora who helps channel his rage into the theater.
Director
Jack Cardiff, John Ford
Producer
Robert Emmett Ginna, Robert D. Graff
Screenwriter
John Whiting
Production Co
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Genre
Biography
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Sep 6, 2012
Runtime
1h 47m