The best Kathleen Ryan’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Kathleen Ryan’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Kathleen Ryan.
Odd Man Out
7.6/10
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
Christopher Columbus
6/10
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
The Sound of Fury
7.2/10
A family man -desperate for a job- latches onto a friend that encourages him into being a criminal.
Captain Lightfoot
6.2/10
A boggy swashbuckler of Irish freedom-fighter Michael Martin.
Captain Boycott
6.4/10
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
Give Us This Day
7.3/10
On the outs in Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.
The Yellow Balloon
6.9/10
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
Jacqueline
6.6/10
Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from his job, he finds solace in the bottle. All seems hopeless until Jacqueline breaks through her father's self-imposed gloom and helps him to regenerate. An adaptation of the novel 'A Grand Man', by Catherine Cookson.
Prelude to Fame
6.3/10
Prelude to Fame is a 1950 British drama film directed by Fergus McDonell from a story by Aldous Huxley. While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell (Robin Dowell), son of John Morell (Guy Rolfe), a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and his wife Catherine (Kathleen Ryan), becomes friendly with young Guido (Jeremy Spenser), and Morell discovers the boy has an extraordinary instinct for orchestration and a phenomenal music memory. A neighboring couple, Signor and Signora Boudini (Henry Oscar and Kathleen Byron) become aware of the boy's talents, and she appeals to his parents to let her educate him musically. Torn by their love for their son and, they feel,the duty to let the world hear his talent, they consent.
El aventurero
The First Saturday of May
6.1/10
An Irish Traveler father struggles to raise his son, who has darker secrets than most.
