Shake Hands with the Devil

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization by his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.

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  Michael Anderson
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  Angela Martelli

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  James Cagney
  Sean Lenihan
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  Don Murray
  Kerry O'Shea
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  Dana Wynter
  Jennifer Curtis
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  Glynis Johns
  Kitty Brady
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  Michael Redgrave
  The General
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  Sybil Thorndike
  Lady Fitzhugh
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  Cyril Cusack
  Chris Noonan
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  Marianne Benet
  Mary Madigan
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  John Breslin
  Timmy McGrath
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  Harry Brogan
  Tom Cassidy
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  Richard Harris
  Terence O'Brien
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  William Hartnell
  Sergeant Jenkins
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  John Le Mesurier
  British General
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  Niall MacGinnis
  Michael O'Leary
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  Ray McAnally
  Paddy Nolan
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  Patrick McAlinney
  Donovan
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  Clive Morton
  Sir Arnold Fielding
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  Noel Purcell
  Liam O'Sullivan
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  Peter Reynolds
  'Black & Tans' Captain
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  Walter Gotell
  'Black & Tans' Sergeant