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The Playboy of the Western World

7.0 101 mins TV Movie   1974
Director(s): Alan Gibson

Release Date: 01 Tue, Jan 1974

A man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for the crime, the locals revel in his story and praise him for his deed, with the daughter of the landlord falling for this "dashing hero". Things take an even more surprising turn, when the father enters the pub. Based on John Millington Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World.

Casts of The Playboy of the Western World

John Hurt

as Christopher Mahon (Christy Mahon)

Sinéad Cusack

as Margaret Flaherty (Pegeen Mike)

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