Saints and Sinners (1949 film)
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Saints and Sinners is a 1949 British
comedy
drama film
directed by Leslie Arliss
and starring Kieron Moore
, Christine Norden
and Sheila Manahan
. The film follows life in small Irish town, where a man is wrongly accused of theft.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Leslie Arliss
Leslie Arliss
Leslie Arliss was an English screenwriter and director. He is best known for his work on the Gainsborough melodramas directing films such as The Man in Grey and The Wicked Lady. during the 1940s...
and starring Kieron Moore
Kieron Moore
Kieron Moore was an Irish film and television actor whose career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s...
, Christine Norden
Christine Norden
Christine Norden was a British actress.-Career:Born Mary Lydia Thornton in Mowbray Terrace, Sunderland, she was the daughter of a bus driver...
and Sheila Manahan
Sheila Manahan
Sheila Manahan was an Irish actress. Among her film roles were Ann Willingdon in Seven Days to Noon , Esther's mother in The Story of Esther Costello , and Mrs. Jenkins in Only Two Can Play , with Peter Sellers and Mai Zetterling. She was married to the Scottish actor, Fulton Mackay.-External links:...
. The film follows life in small Irish town, where a man is wrongly accused of theft.
Cast
- Kieron MooreKieron MooreKieron Moore was an Irish film and television actor whose career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s...
- Michael Kissane - Christine NordenChristine NordenChristine Norden was a British actress.-Career:Born Mary Lydia Thornton in Mowbray Terrace, Sunderland, she was the daughter of a bus driver...
- Blanche - Sheila ManahanSheila ManahanSheila Manahan was an Irish actress. Among her film roles were Ann Willingdon in Seven Days to Noon , Esther's mother in The Story of Esther Costello , and Mrs. Jenkins in Only Two Can Play , with Peter Sellers and Mai Zetterling. She was married to the Scottish actor, Fulton Mackay.-External links:...
- Sheila Flaherty - Michael DolanMichael DolanMichael Dolan, born June 21, 1965, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is an American theatre and film actor, director and educator.-Acting career:...
- Canon - Maire O'NeillMaire O'Neill-External links:**...
- Ma Murnaghan - Tom DillonTom DillonTom Dillon born 1 October 1983 is a rugby union player for Newcastle Falcons in the Guinness Premiership.Tom Dillon's position of choice is as a centre.-External links:*...
- O'Brien - Noel PurcellNoel Purcell (actor)Noel Purcell was an Irish film and television actor.-Career:Purcell began his show business career at the age of 12 in Dublin's Gaiety Theatre. Later, he toured Ireland in a vaudeville act with Jimmy O'Dea....
- Flaherty - Pamela Arliss - Betty
- Edward ByrneEddie ByrneEddie Byrne was an Irish actor. Outside Ireland he is probably best known for his minor role as General Vanden Willard in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but fans of cult sci-fi might also remember him as the skeptical Inspector Mulrooney in The Mummy and as the kindly Dr. Reginald Landers in...
- Barney Downey - Sheila WardSheila WardSheila Ward is a retired British police officer.She was the first female police officer in the Metropolitan Police in London to hold the post of Station Inspector, commanding a police station in Kings Cross. She was appointed following the disbandment of the separate Women's Branch and the...
- Clothing woman - Eric GormanEric GormanEric Desmond Gorman is a former Australian rules footballer who was highly successful in the West Australian National Football League playing for the Swan Districts Football Club....
- Madigan - Eddie ByrneEddie ByrneEddie Byrne was an Irish actor. Outside Ireland he is probably best known for his minor role as General Vanden Willard in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but fans of cult sci-fi might also remember him as the skeptical Inspector Mulrooney in The Mummy and as the kindly Dr. Reginald Landers in...
- Morreys - Liam RedmondLiam RedmondLiam Redmond was an Irish actor known for his stage, film and television roles.-Early life:Redmond was one of four children born to carpenter Thomas and Eileen Redmond...
- O'Driscoll - Tony Quinn - Berry
- Cecilia McKevitt - Maeve
External links
- http://www.radiofones.com/saintsandsinners.htm