Product: Ryan's Daughter (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2006)
Rating: 4.0
I hated Mitchum till I watched this film!!!
I generally cannot stand Robert Mitchum, so I was pleasantly surprised by this classic. Here he is in an unusually low-key role as the long-suffering husband of fornicator Sarah Miles. He never overplays it and certainly got my sympathy. Trevor Howard is equally impressive as the local priest, and John Mills turns in a good performance as the village idiot, managing to evoke the right amount of pathos at the appropriate moments. On top of a great cast, there's a wonderful score by Maurice Jarre and beautiful location filming on the West coast of Ireland. Excellently directed and photographed (by recent Oscar-winner Freddie Young), this is an all-round entertaining movie, which manages to retain its grip till the end.