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RTE play The Field

  • 18-03-2012 1:17am
    #1
    Markdub2000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭


    Well well rte play "The Field"

    Make sure you give The Bull McCabe aka An Taoiseach Enda Kenny his 100 pound for your field...

    I saw this film 10 years ago and I thought it a relic, but alas It's as apt today as it was When it was conceived.

    Why didn't I get the hell out of here when I had the chance.


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  • #2
    tjc28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭tjc28


    i was stuck into this film on rte+1 on chorus ntl when the picture froze for me then went to black. All the other channels worked fine but was black for ages on rte+1. I gave up. This happen to anyone else?


  • #3
    BrianD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,221 ✭✭✭BrianD


    It's a great movie but I thought in terms of production values it dated very badly. Looks like it was made in the 50s when in fact it was 1990.


  • #4
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Little more positivity.

    The film is produced in 1990, Richard Harris was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe, John Hurt nominated for a BAFTA.

    It was directed by Jim Sheridan and based on the Play by John B. Keane. The story is based on a true story, which was detailed in an episode of Thou Shalt Not Kill. the 1959 murder of Moss Moore, a bachelor farmer living in Reamore, County Kerry. Dan Foley, a neighbour with whom Moore had a long-running dispute, was suspected of the murder, but the charges were denied by Foley's family

    The Film differs from the play as the American is English in the play AFAIR, and the Play differs from the true story as the English man is a neighbour of "the Bull".

    The film is set in 1950s Ireland, and perhaps is filmed to reflect that.

    It was conceived in 1966 during a small economic boom.

    A very good film.


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