A Terrible Beauty (film)

Infobox Film
name = A Terrible Beauty
(The Night Fighters)


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director = Tay Garnett
producer = Raymond Stross
Robert Mitchum (uncredited)
writer = R. Wright Campbell
Arthur Roth (novel)
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starring = Robert Mitchum
Richard Harris
Dan O'Herlihy
Anne Heywood
Cyril Cusack
music = Cedric Thorpe Davie
cinematography = Stephen Dade
editing = Peter Tanner
distributor = United Artists
released = June 17, 1960
runtime = 90 min
country = UK / USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0054120

"A Terrible Beauty" (a.k.a. "The Night Fighters") is a 1960 drama film, directed by Tay Garnett and starring Robert Mitchum and Richard Harris. [ [http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=161075&mainArticleId=161071 "The Night Fighters"] at Turner Classic Movies] It was adapted from a novel of the same name, written by Arthur Roth. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE2D81138F931A15750C0A965958260 Arthur Roth, 67, Dies; Novelist and Columnist] ]

Plot

Dermot O'Neill (Mitchum), is an Irishman who desires to free Ireland from Britain and joins the IRA. His friend, Sean Reilly (Harris), is devoted to the cause and all the violence, but O'Neill has growing qualms about the methods of violence.

References

External links

* [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E00E3DF1531EF3ABC4D52DFB467838B679EDE Film review] at "The New York Times"