The Playboy of the Western World (1962)

Directed by

Brian Desmond Hurst

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man arrives in a small Irish village and claims to have killed his father. The villagers are fascinated and treat him as a local hero.

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What happens

The Playboy of the Western World is a 1962 film version of the 1907 play written by John Millington Synge. It was directed and co-written by Brian Desmond Hurst and stars Gary Raymond and Siobhán McKenna. Filmed in County Kerry, the film features many of the Abbey Players. The film was produced by the Four Provinces company created in 1952 by Hurst and Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin who had previously produced John Ford’s The Rising of the Moon and Gideon's Day. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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