Word: mollye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yesterday's rally-which took place at the Orson Welles Cinema-followed a screening of the film, The Molly Maguires. All proceeds from the film showing went to the Black Lung Association.
The film focuses on the detective, McParlan (Richard Harris), who becomes a Molly himself, participates in their activities, adopts their life-style and turns them in to be hung. McParlan's evilness is particularly compelling because he is a conscious and full human being rather than the kind of one...
The opening shot of the sun on the horizon is reminiscent of John Ford and the parallels do not stop there. Director Martin Ritt (Hud) and writer Walter Bernstein are as successful as Ford in exploring and defining Irish tradition and character. A comparison with The Informer is also illuminating...
THE MOLLY MAGUIRES has all the technical magnificence of the biggest Hollywood productions. Some 200 tons of anthracite coal were shipped from Mahoney, Pennsylvania to the studio in Hollywood for a coal wall. Paramount Studios built the longest interior setting ever constructed on a Hollywood sound stage to simulate the...
In this respect, The Molly Maguires is more successful than Bo Widerburg's Adalen 31. Both films go into the lives of workers and use their private dramas as a vehicle for describing the political situation. But Widerburg's sets and shooting are too beautiful to convince the viewer of...