Screenplay: Brendan Behan
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Brendan Behan. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Borstal Boy
2000 · Movie · 93 min. · Ireland
Direction Peter Sheridan
Cast Shawn Hatosy · Danny Dyer · Lee Ingleby · Robin Laing
Plot The teen years of Irish writer and political activist Brendan Behan. At the age of sixteen, while on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the Second World War,...
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Obesenjak (TV)
1974 · Movie · 65 min. · Yugoslavia
Direction Boro Draskovic
Cast Dragomir 'Gidra' Bojanic · Rade Markovic · Tasko Nacic · Branko Plesa
Plot Adaptation of the drama The Quare Fellow by Irish writer Brendan Behan. The action takes place in a prison where an inmate must be hanged and, through black humour, tells...
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The Quare Fellow
1962 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Arthur Dreifuss
Cast Patrick McGoohan · Sylvia Syms · Walter Macken · Dermot Kelly
Plot Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice...
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Un otage (TV)
1970 · Movie · 111 min. · France
Direction Marcel Cravenne
Cast Simone Signoret · Daniel Ivernel · Maurice Chevit · Denise Gence
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