Shake Hands with the Devil
1959-06-24 | 111 min
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization by his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.
Genres
Action Drama War History
Cast
James Cagney
Don Murray
Dana Wynter
Glynis Johns
Michael Redgrave
Sybil Thorndike
Cyril Cusack
Marianne Benet
