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The Violent Enemy is a British film of genre Drama directed by Don Sharp with Tom Bell
The Violent Enemy (1967)
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Add to a movie listThe Violent Enemy is a film about an IRA plot to blow up a British power station.
It was originally known as Come the Hero and filming began in Waterford in October 1968.
^ Filming starts in Waterford. Was shot in Ardmore Studios, Bray, Co. Wicklow and on location in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.
The Irish Times (1921-Current File) [Dublin, Ireland] 12 Oct 1968: 8.
^ The Violent Enemy at BFI
Synopsis
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.Actors
Tom Bell
(Sean Rogan)
Susan Hampshire
(Hannah Costello)
Ed Begley
(Colum O'More)
Noel Purcell
(John Michael Leary)
Peter Madden
(Hewitt)
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