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The Plough And The Stars

1936, Movie, NR, 72 mins

The Plough And The Stars: Review

This turbulent tale of the 1916 Easter Rebellion in Ireland was not one of Ford's better efforts, the unwieldy story and RKO's interfering helping to make the film a classic gone wrong. Yet it remains a stirring if disjointed portrait of the Irish fight for freedom. Stanwyck runs a Dublin boardinghouse and persuades her patriotic husband, Foster, to drop his ties with the Irish Citizen Army (the film's stand-in for the Irish Republican Army). However, when he hears that the ... read more leave a comment