The Violent Enemy
6.8 /10 1 Votes
Director Don Sharp Initial DVD release 2006 (United Kingdom) Duration Language English | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama Music director John Scott Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1968 Based on novel by Jack Higgins Writer Jack Higgins (novel), Edmund Ward (screenplay) Cast Tom Bell (Sean Rogan), Susan Hampshire (Hannah Costello), Ed Begley (Colum O'More), Jon Laurimore (Austin), Michael Standing (Fletcher), Noel Purcell (John Michael Leary)Similar movies Jack Higgins wrote the story for The Violent Enemy and A Prayer for the Dying | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Violent Enemy is a film about an IRA plot to blow up a British power station.
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It was originally known as Come the Hero and filming began in Waterford in October 1968.
Plot
IRA bomb expert Sean Rogan escapes from prison, and is reluctantly recruited into a scheme to blow up a British electronics factory back in Ireland.
Cast
Critical reception
Sky Movies described it as, "one of only a handful of British films to deal with the troubles in Ireland. Played as a melodrama, the film is efficiently directed by action specialist Don Sharp. Tom Bell has the right air of disillusionment about him as the IRA man who's learned moderation in a British jail"; and the Radio Times noted, "it's efficiently made, if unsurprising, and familiar American actor Ed Begley is worth watching as the fanatical Irish mastermind behind the scheme."
References
The Violent Enemy WikipediaThe Violent Enemy IMDb The Violent Enemy themoviedb.org