Young Cassidy
Young Cassidy is a 1965 British biography drama film directed by Jack Cardiff and starring Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, and Maggie Smith. It is a biographical drama based upon the life of the playwright Seán O'Casey.
Plot
Set in 1911 and the growing protest against British rule in Ireland, young John Cassidy (Seán O'Casey) is a labourer by day and a pamphleteer by night. When the pamphlets he has written incite riots, Cassidy realizes he can do more for his people with the pen than with the sword. He writes a new play, The Plough and the Stars, which he submits to the Abbey Theatre (which had already rejected another of his plays, The Shadow of a Gunman), and is surprised when W. B. Yeats, the founder of the Abbey, accepts and produces his new play. The opening of the play causes the audience to riot, and he loses many friends; but he is undeterred and is soon acclaimed as Ireland's outstanding young playwright.
More details
| author | John Whiting |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Ireland |
| director | Jack Cardiff |
| editor | Anne V. Coates |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | abbey theatre british rule in ireland open reject seán o'casey shadow the plough and the stars the shadow of a gunman w. b. yeats |
| musicBy | Seán Ó Riada |
| producer | Robert Emmett Ginna Jr |
| productionCompany | Sextant Films |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| theme | biographical drama |