The Quare Fellow (1962)
Director:
Arthur Dreifuss
Tagline:
« From the play by Brendan Behan. »
Actors:
Thomas Crimmin
Kathleen
Regan
Donnelly
Chief Warder
Holy Healy
Prison Governor
Doctor Flyn
Lavery
Mrs. O'Hara
Also known as:
The Quare Fellow (Canada),
Osuđenik na smrt (Croatia),
Rebet om halsen (Denmark),
La valigia del boia (Italy),
The Quaco Fellow (Norway - alternative spelling)
Rating:
(437 votes)
(437 votes)
Quotes:
« Embezzler: [Negotiating with another prisoner over contraband] We can act like businessmen.
»
« Prisoner: Fair enough. I'm a businessman myself. Sure, what's a crook? Only a businessman without an office.
»
« Regan: It's no *bother* to me to try to save a man's life, Mr. Crimmin. »
« Regan: [Looking up at the sky through bars in a prison office window on the night before an prisoner's execution by hanging] Great night for stars. If there's life on any of them, I wonder do the same things happen up there? Maybe some warder's on a planet, walking across a prison yard this minute. And some fellow waiting on the rope in the morning is looking out through bars for a long look at our Earth and the Moon for the last time. »
« Regan: It's no *bother* to me to try to save a man's life, Mr. Crimmin. »
« Regan: [Looking up at the sky through bars in a prison office window on the night before an prisoner's execution by hanging] Great night for stars. If there's life on any of them, I wonder do the same things happen up there? Maybe some warder's on a planet, walking across a prison yard this minute. And some fellow waiting on the rope in the morning is looking out through bars for a long look at our Earth and the Moon for the last time. »
Production company:
Keywords:
prison,
ireland,
pub,
public morality,
passion,
jealousy,
infidelity,
hypocrisy,
ethics,
death penalty,
Country:
United Kingdom
Trivias:
uncategorized: The interior prison scenes were filmed in Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol (jail), which is no longer in operation, and is open for tours by the public.
uncategorized: First film of Aubrey Morris.
uncategorized: When the customs man is talking about "Himself", he says that he owns a small pub in London and comes here a few times a year. That is a reference to Albert Pierrepoint.
uncategorized: The interior prison scenes were filmed in Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol (jail), which is no longer in operation, and is open for tours by the public.
uncategorized: First film of Aubrey Morris.
uncategorized: When the customs man is talking about "Himself", he says that he owns a small pub in London and comes here a few times a year. That is a reference to Albert Pierrepoint.
Runtime:85 minutes
Cinematographer
Peter Hennessy
Composer:
Alexander Faris
Plots:
In Ireland, a newly hired prison guard has to deal with the realities of prison work and to face the grim issue of death-row executions.
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.
Producer:
producer
Color:
Black and White
Language:
English
