Film
Black 47
- Director
- Lance Daly
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 100 mins
Yet another Irish famine film? Actually, I jest. For all its historical significance, the Great Famine of 1845-1849 has never been tackled in a feature film until now.
Lance Daly frames his drama as a revenge western, with James Frecheville as an Irish Ranger who’s been abroad fighting for the British. When he returns home to find that his mother has starved to death an his brother has been hanged by an English judge, he naturally embarks on a campaign of vengeance. Frecheville’s fellow Australian Hugo Weaving is cast as a disgraced soldier who’s sent to track down our angry hero. The strong supporting cast includes Stephen Rea and Jim Broadbent.
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