The Outsider (1980 film)
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Director Tony Luraschi Distributor Paramount Pictures Language English | 6.8/10 Genres Drama, Political drama Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1979 or
June 2, 1980 (1980-06-02) (New York) Based on The Heritage of Michael Flaherty
by Colin Leinster Writer Colin Leinster (novel), Tony Luraschi Cast Craig Wasson , Sterling Hayden , Patricia Quinn , Niall OBrien , T P McKenna Similar movies Cal (1984), Shadow Dancer (2012), The Boxer (1997), The Informant (1997), Titanic Town (1998) |
The Outsider is a 1980 film thriller set largely in Belfast during The Troubles; it was the first film directed by Italian-American Tony Luraschi. The film is based on the book The Heritage of Michael Flaherty by Colin Leinster, and details the fictional experience of an idealistic Irish-American who travels to Ireland and joins the Irish Republican Army in the 1970s.
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Luraschi, who had worked as an assistant director with Stanley Kramer and Roger Vadim, had never been to Ireland until 1976. The company was unable to film in Northern Ireland, so instead made arrangement with a local residents' association to film the exterior scenes in the Dublin suburb of Ringsend.
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The film was dropped from a 1979 London festival.
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