Riders to the Sea (1936 film)
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Duration Language English | Genre Short Film Country Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date July 13, 1936 (1936-07-13) Writer Brian Desmond Hurst (scenario), Patrick Kirwan (adaptation), Francis Stuart (adaptation), John Millington Synge (play), Wolfgang Wilhelm (scenario) Cast (Maurya), Kevin Guthrie (Bartley), (Michael), (Cathleen), Shelah Richards (Nora)Related Brian Desmond Hurst movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Riders to the Sea is a British film shot in 1935 in Ireland. It is based on 1904 play of the same name, written by John Millington Synge. It was directed by Brian Desmond Hurst with Sara Allgood and Denis Johnston in the title roles. A story in a fishing community in a West of Ireland, it concerns Maurya, a woman who loses her husband and her sons at the sea.
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Writing for The Spectator in 1935, Graham Greene praised Fields for her courage and generosity in financing this independent film, however he faulted the film's apparent independence from the viewer, and described the film as "altogether too private" in its presentation. Greene (who admitted a personal disinclination toward Synge's plays) predicted that even Synge's admirers would struggle with the film and suggested that "something has gone badly wrong with the continuity; the loss of act divisions has upset the sense of time".
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