Captain Lightfoot is a 1955 American CinemaScope Technicolor adventure film directed by Douglas Sirk starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush and Jeff Morrow and is Sirk's adaptation of a book by W. R. Burnett written in 1954.
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| Directed by | Douglas Sirk |
| Screenplay by | W. R. Burnett Oscar Brodney |
| Based on | a novel by W. R. Burnett |
| Produced by | Ross Hunter |
| Starring | Rock Hudson Barbara Rush Jeff Morrow |
| Cinematography | Irving Glassberg |
| Edited by | Frank Gross |
| Music by | Heinz Roemheld Herman Stein |
Production company | Universal Pictures |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.3 million (US)[1] |
The movie is set in the early 19th century with the hero and his brother-in-arms becoming highwaymen, robbing the wealthy around the foothills of Dublin, Ireland. Captain Lightfoot falls in love, and the ensuing drama threatens everyone's safety.
The movie was filmed around Clogherhead, County Louth, Marlay Park in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, and in the Powerscourt Estate in Enniskerry, County Wicklow. Slane Castle in Slane County Meath was used as the exterior of Ballymore Castle.
Director/writer Michael Cimino utilized the nicknames of Martin and Doherty for the main characters in his debut feature film, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974).
Plot
editIn 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to support it, and soon becomes an outlaw. In Dublin, he meets famous rebel "Captain Thunderbolt" and becomes his second-in-command, under the name "Lightfoot." They give off a sense of pleasure
Cast
edit- Rock Hudson as Michael Martin, aka "Lightfoot"[2]
- Barbara Rush as Aga Doherty
- Jeff Morrow as John Doherty, aka "Capt. Thunderbolt"
- Kathleen Ryan as Lady Anne More
- Finlay Currie as Callahan
- Denis O'Dea as Regis Donnell
- Geoffrey Toone as Captain Hood
- Hilton Edwards as Lord Glen
- Sheila Brennan as Waitress
- Harry Goldblatt as Brady
- Charles B. Fitzsimons as Dan Shanley
- Christopher Casson as Lord Clonmell
- Philip O'Flynn as Trim
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1955', Variety Weekly, January 25, 1956
- ^ "Captain Lightfoot". The New Yorker.
Tony Tracy, "Captain Lightfoot (1955): Caught between a Rock (Hudson) and a Rapparee," Screening Irish America (ed. Ruth Barton), (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009)
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