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...Quare Fellow. Brendan Behan, like most Irishmen, laughs hardest when he hurts worst, and in this movie version of his first successful play he laughs at the way men are made to live, and condemned to die, in an average Irish prison...
...Quare Fellow. Brendan Behan, like most Irishmen, laughs hardest when he hurts worst, and in this movie version of his first successful play he laughs at the way men are made to live, and condemned to die, in an average Irish prison...
...Quare Fellow, based on the play by Ireland's Brendan Behan, is a funny tragedy, a happy-go-lucky horror show, a gay little wake for the dead who have died in the name of justice-the kind of justice that demands a life for a life. Like the play, the picture ignores the rational arguments against capital punishment. It simply takes its audience inside an Irish prison and bolts the gate; and then with a world of Irish charm and humor shows everybody round the dear old place, shows everybody how it feels to live in a cell...
...Behan is frankly polemical, and Arthur Dreifuss, who both wrote and directed the picture, has done nothing to mitigate the playwright's opinions. On the other hand, Behan brings to his special pleading a special experience and a special authority. He has spent nearly six of his 40 years in jail. One feels that his convictions have been fortified by convictions...
...Bing Crosby, 58, mending in Santa Monica after an operation for kidney stones: Brendan Behan, 37, diabetic but enthusiastically tosspot Irish playwright; into a Dublin hospital for the fourth time in 18 months. Moaned Wife Beatrice: "It's the usual trouble-too much gargle...