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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 (Rod Taylor) 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 (Julie Christie). Eventually O'Casey meets bookshop assistant Nora (Maggie Smith) who helps channel his rage into the theater.

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Joan Didion Vogue I think I have never seen anything sillier. Mar 11, 2020 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Intelligent biopic. Rated: B- Mar 22, 2017 Full Review Read all reviews

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Barry H 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. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/18/24 Full Review Audience Member 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). Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review s r 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. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member correction john ford did not direct this only produced it it being an well acted bio-pic also year is not 2012 but 1965. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member In this 1965 production, Rod Taylor plays the playwright Sean O'Casey in his youth. Maggie Smith plays Lady Gregory. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Based on the early life of Irish playwright and notorious socialist Sean O'Casey, the film follows O'Casey (Rod Taylor) 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 (Julie Christie). Eventually O'Casey meets bookshop assistant Nora (Maggie Smith) 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