Forgotten Irish movies.

Murphy also did a few Irishoid films such as the Leaping Leprechauns films, set in Ireland but American productions shot in Romania with a mostly British cast (Polish-Australian-English John Bluthal of Vicar of Dibley and Spike Milligan sidekick fame, Scottish Sylvester McCoy, English Godfrey James and the one genuine Irishman - Jimmy Ellis) and the bizarre the She-Creature, not a Corman production, but confusingly a remake of one, shot in California but set here, with Rufus Sewell and Carla Gugino as carnies who buy a mermaid from dear old Aubrey Morris.

Ends with Gugino having a daughter... except Sewell isn't the father. The mermaid is.
That's right, lesbian mermaid pregnancy.

Here's two Brendan Gleeson shorts available on YouTube

Cáca Milis
https://youtu.be/SW-tdaO2s9o

Six Shooter
https://youtu.be/n_xMyx_SogA

This is a quirky crime related short...
Mr Crocodile in the Cupboard, starring Gerard McSorley, Darren Healy and Cora Venus Lunny.

Rawhead Rex

Samsonsmasher wrote: »

Gerard McSorley played the Jack Dawson role in the godawful S.O.S. Titanic. David Janssen who played the original fugitive plays a big shot passenger with a pregnant teenage bride. David Warner the English actor who got his head lobbed off by a sheet of glass in The Omen plays another doomed male passenger. James Cameron cast him as Billy Zane's bodyguard in Titanic. Only worth watching for the scenes Cameron copied in his big budget version. Filmed on a clapped out 1950s cruise liner in the 1970s. Wretched.

Haven't seen McSorley since the start of lockdown, he was in bad shape then

vriesmays wrote: »

He's supposed to be homeless now.

Bound to have royalties of some kind coming in

Yurt! wrote: »

That's sad if true. He's a talented character actor. Just goes to show how precarious acting as a career is.

Liquid diet doesn't help

Samsonsmasher wrote: »

Gerard McSorley played the Jack Dawson role in the godawful S.O.S. Titanic. David Janssen who played the original fugitive plays a big shot passenger with a pregnant teenage bride. David Warner the English actor who got his head lobbed off by a sheet of glass in The Omen plays another doomed male passenger. James Cameron cast him as Billy Zane's bodyguard in Titanic. Only worth watching for the scenes Cameron copied in his big budget version. Filmed on a clapped out 1950s cruise liner in the 1970s. Wretched.

I believe that while some scenes were done in California on the Queen Mary, the majority of boat scenes that weren't done in studio were done on something more eeble than a clapped out cruise liner, the old Isle of Man ferry.
Was the first film AFAIK to have the Isle of Man play Ireland.


WArner has been in three Titanic movies.
The other being Time Bandits.

Yeah, he wanted to use his own accent, and MS was adamant that the character would not be a first generation immigrant.

That didn't quite shoot his career in the foot,but that his personal life went a bit wonky shortly after, which did, may not be coincidence.

Which is a shame.

vriesmays wrote: »

No resting place - old black and white movie about travellers.

https://irelandsmovies.wordpress.com/n/

Night Train?

weadick wrote: »

Worst Irish movie ever is probably Strength and Honour starring Michael Madsen and Vinny Jones. How it ever got made is hard to fathom.

I think that you'll find plenty of better contenders for that award including "Fatal Deviation" (1998) an Irish martial arts movie and a long-time favourite amongst boardsies.

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

I'd love to see Reefer and the Model, just because of the name, which used to be mentioned all the time in the papers.

You'll be lucky, I've been searching for it for years as it never made it 'officially' to DVD and even the VHS tape is impossible to find.

Del.Monte wrote: »

You'll be lucky, I've been searching for it for years as it never made it 'officially' to DVD and even the VHS tape is impossible to find.

Film four put up some of the budget so they'll likely have it somewhere