The Molly Maguires
by Martin Ritt
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Actor: Anthony Zerbe, Frank Finlay, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar, Sean ConneryDirector: Martin Ritt
Brand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-27
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
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Movie Review: Portrait of the cruel labor conditions in 19th century America
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been a union man all my life, as was my father and mother who was the daughter of a mine worker from Eastern Europe.
The Molly Maguires shows an accurate picture of the hard life these people faced and how the mine owners schemed to keep them poor and virtual slaves in company towns. Sean Connery and Richard Harris, along with Samantha Eggar and other Celtic actors do a fine job of showing how the workers pushed back against their mine-owner masters. The media of the time called them murderers, but in truth, the wretched conditions in the mine towns killed far more than the Mollies ever did. I've often thought that Sean Connery was good as James Bond, but he grew into a seasoned actor playing in this film.
This film is well worth your time.
Summary of The Molly Maguires
A pennsylvania company plants a spy among an irish coal miners secret society of saboteurs. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/22/2005 Starring: Sean Connery Samantha Eggar Run time: 124 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Martin RittAn expensive box-office flop when released in 1970, The Molly Maguires can now be appreciated as a compelling drama with potent political undertones. The talent involved is first-rate all the way: In addition to the volatile teaming of Sean Connery and Richard Harris on opposite sides of a Pennsylvania miners' war, director Martin Ritt and screenwriter Walter Bernstein were at the height of their Hollywood powers, determined to give viewers a visceral, grittily authentic drama about the exploitation of Irish immigrant miners in the centennial America of 1876. Connery's secret gang, the Molly Maguires, retaliates by destroying mines and equipment; Harris infiltrates the group as an informer hired by the coal-company owners, leading to his inevitable crisis of conscience. Pub brawls and manly action give the film its meat-and-potatoes appeal, and discerning viewers will appreciate the story's careful pacing and moral ambiguity; ironically, those qualities were blamed for the film's commercial failure. --Jeff Shannon
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