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Young Cassidy is a British film of genre Drama directed by John Ford released in USA on 22 march 1965 with Rod Taylor
Young Cassidy (1965)
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Add to a movie listYoung Cassidy is a 1965 film directed by Jack Cardiff and John Ford. The film stars Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, and Maggie Smith. The film is a biographical drama based upon the life of the playwright Sean O'Casey.
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Set in 1911 and the growing protest against British rule in Ireland, young John Cassidy (Sean O'Casey) is a labourer by day and a pamphleteer by night. When the pamphlets he has written incite riots, Cassidy realizes he can do more for his people with the pen than with the sword. He writes a new play, The Plough and the Stars, which he submits to the Abbey Theatre (which had already rejected another of his plays, The Shadow of a Gunman), and is surprised when W.B. Yeats, the founder of the Abbey, accepts and produces his new play. The opening of the play causes the audience to riot, and he loses many friends; but he is undeterred and is soon acclaimed as Ireland's outstanding young playwright.Actors
Rod Taylor
(John Cassidy)
Julie Christie
(Daisy Battles)
Maggie Smith
(Nora)
Michael Redgrave
(W.B. Yeats)
Edith Evans
(Lady Gregory)
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