The Gentle Gunman
6.4 /10 1 Votes
Country United Kingdom | 6.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast (Terence Sullivan), (Matt Sullivan), (Shinto), (Maureen Fagan), (Molly Fagan), (Flynn) Release date October 1952 (UK)30 September 1953 (U.S.) Similar movies '71 , Patriot Games , Mr Nice , A Prayer for the Dying , Odd Man Out , The General | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Gentle Gunman is a black-and-white 1952 Ealing Studios drama film, directed by Basil Dearden and starring John Mills and Dirk Bogarde.
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Plot
John Mills and Dirk Bogarde, bizarrely, were the actors chosen to play two IRA men under cover in London during World War II. The lads are captured after (Terry) starts questioning the worth of war, a line of thinking never popular with armies. They are sprung from captivity by Connolly (Liam Redmond) and his IRA men. Nice cameo by Jack MacGowran.
Critical reception
The British magazine Time Out thought the film was "stiff" and "overplotted", while the British Film Institute thought the film struggled to "find the right tone" and culminated with a "car-crash of an ending". The New York Times thought that the film had "failed to search beneath the surface" of the screen-play and described much of the content as "superficial".
John greenwood main end title music from the gentle gunman 1952
References
The Gentle Gunman WikipediaThe Gentle Gunman IMDb The Gentle Gunman themoviedb.org