Product: Ryan's Daughter (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2006)
Rating: 4.0
Great Movie - not so "Special" of an Edition
David Lean's long (the adulterers don't even start boffing until 1 hour and 47 minutes in to this long - 3 1/2 hour) lusciously filmed lascivious movie, set against the backdrop of the "Wild West of Ireland" during the Irish Rebellion of 1916, is a lovely period piece about forbidden love. John Mills (Haley's Daddy) deserved his Supporting Actor Oscar for his touching portrayal of Michael, the "Village Idiot" who displays more sense than most of the village. Mitchum plays well against type as the cuckolded village schoolmaster, and Trevor Howard `tis grand as the priest pressed to preside over the whole mess of it.This reviewer was disappointed in the "Two-Disc Special Edition" as the "specials" are not very special at all, at all. The commentary by the Widow Lean, Sarah Miles, Mitchum's Daughter et. al is a Mutual Admiration Society of fawning, saccharinly self-laudatory blather of mostly biographical fluff and is a missed opportunity to dispel American popular misconceptions about "the Troubles" as merely a matter of differences in religious theology. /TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer