The Playboy of the Western World (film)

The Playboy of the Western World
Original film poster
Directed by	Brian Desmond Hurst
Produced by	Denis O’Dell Brendan Smith
Written by	John Millington Synge (play) Brian Desmond Hurst (screenplay) Roland Kibbee (screenplay)
Starring	Gary Raymond Siobhán McKenna
Music by	Seán Ó Riada
Cinematography	Geoffrey Unsworth
Distributed by	Janus Films
Release dates	1962
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United Kingdom United States
Language	English

The Playboy of the Western World is a 1962 film version of the 1907 play written by John Millington Synge. It was directed and co-written by Brian Desmond Hurst and stars Gary Raymond and Siobhán McKenna. Filmed in County Kerry, the film features many of the Abbey Players. The film was produced by the Four Provinces company created in 1952 by Hurst and Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin who had previously produced John Ford’s The Rising of the Moon^[1] and Gideon's Day.

Plot

A young man from a far away village appears in County Mayo announcing to all and sundry that he has murdered his father with a blow to the head. With the tale growing in the telling, the young man becomes a local hero…until his angry father comes to fetch him home.

Cast

Gary Raymond ... Christy Mahon
Siobhán McKenna … Pegeen Mike
Elspeth March … The Widow Quinn
Liam Redmond … Michael James
Niall MacGinnis … Old Man Mahon

Production notes

The film was shot at Inch Strand in Dingle Peninsula, co Kerry. William Constable, the art director built a cottage close to the beach.

References

↑ p.527 McBride, Joseph Searching for John Ford Univ. Press of Mississippi, 15/02/2011

External links

Short film on Brian Desmond Hurst's Playboy of the Western World featuring part of the soundtrack
The Playboy of the Western World at the Internet Movie Database
The Playboy of the Western World at the website dedicated to Brian Desmond Hurst
The Playboy of the Western World The photographer Padraig Kennelly remembers the shooting of the film

Films directed by Brian Desmond Hurst

The Tell-Tale Heart (1934)
Irish Hearts (1934)
Ourselves Alone (1936)
The Tenth Man (1936)
Sensation (1936)
Glamorous Night (1937)
Prison Without Bars (1938)
On the Night of the Fire (1939)
The Lion Has Wings (1939)
Dangerous Moonlight (1941)
A Letter from Ulster (1942)
Alibi (1942)
The Hundred Pound Window (1944)
Theirs Is the Glory (1946)
Hungry Hill (1947)
The Mark of Cain (1947)
Trottie True (1949)
Scrooge (1951)
Malta Story (1953)
Simba (1955)
The Black Tent (1956)
Dangerous Exile (1957)
Behind the Mask (1958)
His and Hers (1960)
The Playboy of the Western World (1962)

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