A Terrible Beauty
A Terrible Beauty (also known as The Night Fighters) is a 1960 drama film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Robert Mitchum, Anne Heywood, Dan O'Herlihy and Richard Harris. It was adapted from a 1958 novel of the same name written by Arthur Roth. The film was an international co-production between Mitchum's production company, D.R.M., and that of producer Raymond Stross.
Plot
Dermot O'Neill is recruited into the Irish Republican Army (IRA) when a unit is formed in his Northern Ireland town during World War II. Reaction to the news is mixed; his mother is strongly against it while his father is proud. Dermot's brother Ned and sister Bella are ambivalent, but his girlfriend Neeve Donnelly ends their relationship, believing that the IRA will make a murderer of him.
More details
author | Robert Wright Campbell |
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contentLocation | Northern Ireland |
director | Tay Garnett |
editor | Peter Tanner |
events | Irish Republican Army World War II |
genre | drama |
keywords | across the border belfast bloodshed capture drive free state german invasion horrify id irish republican kill power plant rescue return home search wife and child wound |
musicBy | Cedric Thorpe Davie |
producer | Raymond Stross Robert Mitchum |
productionCompany | D.R.M. Productions, Inc. |
publisher | United Artists |
theme | northern |