Ryan's Daughter (1970)


Robert Mitchum          Charles Shaughnessy
Trevor Howard           Father Hugh Collins
Sarah Miles             Rose Ryan
Christopher Jones (IV)  Major Andrew Doryan
John Mills              Michael
Leo McKern              Thomas Ryan
Barry Foster            Tim O'Leary
Marie Kean              Mrs McCardle
Arthur O'Sullivan       Mr McCardle
Evin Crowley            Moureen
Douglas Sheldon         Driver
Gerald Sim (II)         Captain
Barry Jackson           Corporal
Des Keogh               Lanky Private
Niall Toibin            O'Keefe
Philip O'Flynn          Paddy
Donal Neligan           Moureen's Boyfriend
Brian O'Higgins         Constable O'Connor
Niall O'Brien           Bernard
Owen Sullivan           Joseph

Directed by:            David Lean
Produced by:            Anthony Havelock-Allan, Roy Stevens



In an Irish seaside town in 1916, the tavern owner's daughter, Rosy Ryan, strays from her 
passionless marriage with a British soldier who has come to control contact between the 
Irish Republican Army and the Germans. When Rosy's father informs on an IRA leader who is 
then arrested, the townspeople assume Rosy to be the traitor because of her relationship 
with the British soldier, resulting in tragic consequences.

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World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy goes 
horseback riding on the beach with the young English officer. There was a magnetic attraction 
between them the day he was the only customer in her father's pub and Rosy was tending bar for 
the first time since her marriage to the village schoolmaster. Then one stormy night some Irish 
revolutionaries expecting a shipment of guns arrive at Ryan's pub. Is it Rosy who betrays them 
to the British? Will Shaugnessy take Father Collin's advice? Is the pivotal role that of the 
village idiot who is mute?