From acclaimed Oscar & BAFTA-nominated director Martin Ritt 'The Molly MaGuires' is a gritty compelling drama about a group of Irish immigrant miners who use sabotage and murder to fight the corruption of the Pennsylvanian mining company they work for. Starring Sean Connery as the leader of the immigrant band known as The Molly Maguires and Richard Harris as the man paid to infiltrate and bring down the gang the film depicts an era of brutal repression and the struggle to maintai
The year is 1876 and the Pensylvania coalfields are the setting.Coal is needed to fuel the Industrial Revolution at the lowest price and the miners toil for a pittance.
Sean Connery and Richard Harris work well together in this period drama,at the time both could write their ticket and chose this production.
Gritty and realistic,authentic and rich this could have been set in Central Scotland or anywhere in Europe for that matter.The heart of the story is the labour for low wages,the hard graft at the coalface and the hard life above ground.
With stock actors such as Anthony Zerbe amongst others the story unfolds in the struggle to survive in a harsh enviroment with subterfuge and deceit playing alongside the miners(and their families)toil & squalour.10/10
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Sean Connery stars as Jack Kehoe, leader of a militant workers group, in this account of the Irish-American coal miners' struggle against the exploitative working practices of their bosses. Kehoe's men - the Molly Maguires - are unafraid of using violence and intimidation to achieve their ends, and they pose enough threat to the bosses that the latter respond by sending undercover detective James McParlan (Richard Harris) to infiltrate their organisation. However, McParlan is a working class Irish immigrant himself and he soon begins to question where his true allegiances lie.
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