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Directed by | Michael Anderson |
Written by | Rearden Conner (novel) Marian Spitzer |
Produced by | Michael Anderson |
Starring | James Cagney Don Murray Dana Wynter Glynis Johns |
Narrated by | Michael Rennie |
Cinematography | Erwin Hillier |
Edited by | Gordon Pilkington |
Music by | William Alwyn |
Production company | Pennebaker Productions |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
Countries | Ireland United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $2 million[2] |
Shake Hands with the Devil is a 1959 British-Irish film produced and directed by Michael Anderson and starring James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns and Michael Redgrave.[3] The film was based on the 1933 novel of the same title by Rearden Conner, the son of a Royal Irish Constabulary policeman.
The film is set in 1921 Dublin, where the Irish Republican Army battles the Black and Tans, ex-British soldiers sent to suppress the rebels.