Margaret Lockwood

Dennis Price

Cecil Parker

Dermot Walsh

Michael Denison

F.J. McCormick

Arthur Sinclair

Jean Simmons

Eileen Crowe

Eileen Herlie

Barbara Waring

Michael Golden

Shamus Locke

Siobhán McKenna

Dan O'Herlihy

Tony Quinn

Tony Wager

Hector MacGregor

Henry Mollison

Pete Murray

Ingrid Forrest

Ann Wilton

Dock Mathieson

Patrick Holt

Guy Rolfe

Shelah Richards

Eddie Byrne

Maureen Moore

Pat McGrath

Desmond Dickinson

Alan Jaggs

Alex Vetchinsky

Ray Sturgess

Brian Desmond Hurst

Daphne du Maurier

Terence Young

Harold Hurdell

Drama

Hungry Hill

Two Cities Films

United Kingdom

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Cecil Parker offers us the thread to guide us through this adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel about the dynastic aspirations of the "Brodrick" family, and of their trials and tribulations over a long period of history spent feuding with the local "Donovan" clan. It all starts when an altercation at their copper mine results in the death of his son "Henry" (Michael Denison) and follows the efforts of subsequent generations to try to put the past to rest (or not!). It's not the greatest of stories, this, but Parker and his eldest son, the well-meaning "Greyhound John" (Dennis Price), along with a strong performance from the always reliable Margaret Lockwood as his ambitious wife "Fanny Rosa" and Dermot Walsh as their aptly monikered son "Wild Johnnie" give us quite a few decent characters to follow. Terence Young helped the author adapt the screenplay and Brian Hurst has done a reasonable job, but somehow the story lacks punch. It takes way too long to get anywhere and the production itself is somewhat pedestrian. I did enjoy it, but that is probably because I am a fan of the three lead actors - I am not sure anyone will remember the film for long, though.

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