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The Gentle Gunman

  • 1952
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  • 1h 26min
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6.4/10
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The Gentle Gunman (1952)
CrimeDramaThriller

En 1941, en tiempos de guerra en el Reino Unido, dos hermanos irlandeses que trabajan para el IRA se enfrentan a los métodos despiadados de su líder local.En 1941, en tiempos de guerra en el Reino Unido, dos hermanos irlandeses que trabajan para el IRA se enfrentan a los métodos despiadados de su líder local.En 1941, en tiempos de guerra en el Reino Unido, dos hermanos irlandeses que trabajan para el IRA se enfrentan a los métodos despiadados de su líder local.

  • Dirección
    • Basil Dearden
  • Guionista
    • Roger MacDougall
  • Elenco
    • John Mills
    • Dirk Bogarde
    • Robert Beatty
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.4/10
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    • Dirección
      • Basil Dearden
    • Guionista
      • Roger MacDougall
    • Elenco
      • John Mills
      • Dirk Bogarde
      • Robert Beatty
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    • 8Opiniones de los críticos
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    John Mills
    John Mills
    • Terence Sullivan
    Dirk Bogarde
    Dirk Bogarde
    • Matt Sullivan
    Robert Beatty
    Robert Beatty
    • Shinto
    Elizabeth Sellars
    Elizabeth Sellars
    • Maureen Fagan
    Barbara Mullen
    Barbara Mullen
    • Molly Fagan
    Eddie Byrne
    Eddie Byrne
    • Flynn
    Joseph Tomelty
    Joseph Tomelty
    • Dr Brannigan
    Liam Redmond
    Liam Redmond
    • Connolly
    James Kenney
    James Kenney
    • Johnny Fagan
    Michael Golden
    • Murphy
    Jack MacGowran
    Jack MacGowran
    • Patsy McGuire
    • (as Jack McGowran)
    Gilbert Harding
    • Henry Truethome
    Terence Alexander
    Terence Alexander
    • Ship's Officer
    • (sin créditos)
    Harry Brogan
    • Barney
    • (sin créditos)
    Edward Byrne
    • Ambulance Attendant
    • (sin créditos)
    Patric Doonan
    Patric Doonan
    • Sentry
    • (sin créditos)
    Stephen Dunne
    Stephen Dunne
    • Brennan
    • (sin créditos)
    Harry Hutchinson
    • Bill - Detective
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • Basil Dearden
    • Guionista
      • Roger MacDougall
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    5howardmorley

    Grumpy Gilbert Harding Acting!!

    I could only rate this 5/10 mainly because of the atrocious casting.I do not accept Ealing Films could not cast this film in 1952 with more authentic Irish actors in the principal roles.Consider they casted these leads:John Mills, Dirk Bogarde (English) wobbly accents, Robert Beatty (Canadian) wobbly accent, Elizabeth Sellars (Scottish) wobbly accent.Ironically Eddie Byrne whom I always thought as Irish was actually born in Birmingham, England and Barbara Mullen was actually born in Massachusets, USA.A real mixed bag of actors and accents which completely destroyed the believability of this film for me.I suppose their drama academies had not taught them authentic Irish accents and had dredged every vernacular out of them in their quest for received pronunciation.

    The part of "The Gentle Gunman" I enjoyed most were the verbal duels of Gilbert Harding ("What's My Line 1950s BBC TV version;Face to Face with John Freeman) with the actor who played old doctor O'Loughlin (from "A Night To Remember" 1958) and a Mrs Doyle (Father Ted) type woman operating the telephone exchange at an Irish post office.Film producers have an awful tendency to romanticise IRA type figures in films.
    10fung0

    Outstanding!

    Hard to understand the mediocre reviews for this classic. Don't be put off - The Gentle Gunman is a must-see.

    The story is engrossing - reminiscent of better-known Irish-revolution films like Odd Man Out and The Informer, and every bit their equal. The two brothers - one headstrong, the other cool and clever - are perfectly matched in a love-hate duel to the death.

    The casting is hard to beat - John Mills and Dirk Bogarde together in one film. Wow. The supporting parts are excellent as well, especially Elizabeth Sellars in an unusually negative role.

    Then there's Basil Dearden, one of the best UK directors of the 1950s, doing what is surely his best work ever. The photography is breathtaking, especially the scenes out in the hills of Ireland. These contrast perfectly with the dark and gritty scenes in London.

    Unlike so many films dealing with the IRA, The Gentle Gunman manages to embrace both heartbreak and hope, while detouring expertly from the obvious love and revenge subplots.

    I don't hand out 10/10 ratings lightly, but in this case it's barely sufficient.
    6hitchcockthelegend

    Ealing take on the Irish Troubles.

    Directed by Basil Dearden and adapted to screenplay from his own play by Roger MacDougal, The Gentle Gunman finds John Mills and Dirk Bogarde as brothers in the IRA circa 1941. Matt (Bogarde) is the young and hungry in the name of the cause brother, Terence (Mills) has grown tired of the violence and questions the IRA's methods. This puts a strain on their relationship, whilst it also puts Terence on a collision course with the IRA superiors who brand him as a traitor.

    The Irish Troubles has never been an easy subject to broach in movies, the political stand point of the film makers invariably leaning towards bias. Whilst critics and reviewers have to battle with their own convictions when trying to stay firmly on the fence. The Gentle Gunman is an attempt at being an anti violence movie, one with a "gentle" pro British slant from that most British of film studios, Ealing. Unfortunately it's tonally all over the place, awash with a mixed bunch of characters that range from apparent comic relief, to rabid Irish terrorists and a town crier like British bigot. Things are further put into the realm of the unbelievable by Mills and Bogarde trying to hold down Irish accents, a shame because without the fluctuation of the vocal chords the performances are rather good.

    It's also a bit too stagey and the pace often drags itself into a stupor, making the adequate action scenes act more as a merciful release than anything truly exciting. On the plus side the film looks amazing at times, with Gordon Dines (The Blue Lamp) on cinematography dealing firmly in film noir filters. Which goes some way to explain how the film has come to be in a couple of reference books about British noir. But really it's a marginal entry and all told it's just a routine drama from a Studio who were much better in other genre spheres. 6/10
    6MOscarbradley

    A decent enough attempt at dramatizing the Irish 'Troubles'

    The Irish 'Troubles' might seem an unlikely subject for an Ealing film of the early fifties but when you consider it's a Basil Dearden/Michael Relph movie then perhaps not, for Dearden and Relph were the team behind "Sapphire" and "Victim" which tackled racism and homosexuality at a time when such subjects were considered taboo. It's set during the Second World War and it's about the IRA doing their bit to heighten the Blitz in London and casts John Mills and Dirk Bogarde as very unlikely Irish brothers, one for the use of violence and the other against it. Bogarde, in particular, is miscast, (he never wanted to make the movie), and his attempt at an Irish accent is pretty awful but Mills, once again, proves the better actor and turns in a fairly credible performance while Dearden ensures the suspense quota remains high. An excellent supporting cast includes Jack MacGowran, Liam Redmond, Robert Beatty and Barbara Mullen. It's unlikely it will ever go down as one of the better films to deal with the Irish question but neither is it negligible and it is worth seeing.
    8manuel-pestalozzi

    Everything is relative ... even the impact of terrorism

    As fate would have it, I bought a low price DVD with this movie shortly before the bomb attacks on the London underground on July 7th, 2005. I suppose the story is based on real facts. Members of the IRA planted bombs in London's underground system during WW II. This is what happens in the first part of this movie anyway, and an amazing amount of footage seems to have been shot on real locations. Dirk Bogarde plays the young Irishman who deposits the suitcase with the time bomb on a station platform full with families and children who are bedding down for a night during the Blitz, John Mills is his older brother, also a member of the terrorist gang but beset by moral qualms. He follows the Bogarde character and manages to throw the bomb into the tunnel just before it explodes.

    Basically this is a story about the questioning of causes and of the justification of terrorist acts, specially in relation to the situation in Northern Ireland. In this aspect it is not unlike Carol Reed's Odd Man Out, made a few years earlier. The main character takes a critical view of the actions of the terrorists who in turn suspect him of being a traitor (not without reason). The action soon moves to an isolated road house on the Green Island, the base of the gang, and the point is clearly made, that all the actions of the terrorist are senseless and just cause harm to many innocent people without achieving anything but generating more suffering and hate.

    What is really interesting for a viewer of our days about this movie is how the issue of terrorism is treated. The terrorists are basically presented as misguided dimwits who will never be able to shake the system. Compared with how terrorism is regarded today this treatment struck me as being a very mild and strangely relaxed view of people ready to commit atrocities. But then I came to understand that even terrorism and its impact have to be relativised. Compared with the surface bombings by German planes during the Blitz (a memory certainly still very fresh in 1952), the damages caused by a group of terrorists must have seemed very limited indeed.

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    • Trivia
      Eddie Byrne, Michael Golden, and E.J. Kennedy had also featured in a 1950 television play in different roles.
    • Errores
      The car which is used to escape after the shootout with the prison vehicle has different number plates front and back. DZ 7563 on the front and ZC 6034 on the rear.It has the DZ plate when the arrives at the scene. DZ would be a Co Antrim registration, ZC would be Dublin.

      It appears that two different cars were used as the Northern car also has an extra spotlight on the front and no padlock on the wiper.
    • Créditos curiosos
      Opening credits prologue: NORTHERN IRELAND 1941
    • Conexiones
      Featured in Century of Cinema: Ourselves Alone? (1995)
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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 30 de enero de 1953 (Suecia)
    • País de origen
      • Reino Unido
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      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
      • Bombe im U-Bahn-Schacht
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Ealing Studios, Ealing, Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(studio: made at Ealing Studios, London, England.)
    • Productoras
      • J. Arthur Rank Organisation
      • Ealing Studios
      • Michael Balcon Productions
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      1 hora 26 minutos
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      • Black and White
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.37 : 1

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