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- English
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About This Book
The making of David Lean's Ryan's Daughter in Dingle, Ireland, between 1968 and 1970, is shrouded in myth and sensational stories. Robert Mitchum and the glamour and mischief of 1960s Hollywood, the Irish climate, the studio system, and one of film's greatest auteurs all converged to make a troubled and fabled production in an unsuspecting town in County Kerry. Fifty years on, Paul Benedict Rowan has written the definitive account of one of the great movie follies and its unique place in cinematic and Irish history. Painstakingly researched over fifteen years, Ryan's Daughter: The Making of an Irish Epic charts the tumultuous filming of this iconic piece of cinema. Bringing together exclusive cast and crew interviews, a wealth of previously unseen archival material, and extraordinary accounts of the local people who took Lean and his epic to their hearts, this fast-paced, entertaining, and often jaw-dropping narrative is everything you ever wanted to know about David Lean's great 'fillum' and its tragic aftermath.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Authorâs Note
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Roughneck in a Rolls
- 2. Passage to India
- 3. A bit of a fillum
- 4. Not waving, drowning
- 5. Five seasons in one day
- 6. Mrs Bolt
- 7. The Jones Gang
- 8. Dingle â69
- 9. The bluebell wood conspiracy
- 10. Dangerous occupation
- 11. Worldâs first hippie
- 12. Bloody murder
- 13. The Smiling Cobra
- 14. Black and white
- 15. The storm waiters
- 16. Rid of the mob
- 17. Body in the bathroom
- 18. God save our Lean
- Acknowledgements
- Images & Quoted Text Credits
- Notes on Sources
- Index
- Series Page