The 1970 Irish film “Ryan’s Daughter” was carpeted by critics and bombed at the box office but it put Dingle in County Kerry on the map. Now, English actress Sarah Miles - who played Rosy Ryan in the movie - is penning a sequel and Dingle locals are wondering what's next! Local historian Micheál de Mordha says Dingle was an off-the-map, quiet rural village, before legendary British director David Lean brought “Ryan’s Daughter” and its huge cast and crew to town. Famous faces such as Hollywood great Robert Mitchum, who played Rosy Ryan’s husband, schoolmaster Charles Shaughnessy, failed to impress the locals. Case in point: one day, during a break from filming, Mitchum took his Porsche out for a spin on Kerry’s country roads when he came across a traffic jam - a farmer walking his cattle in the road. The story goes that the actor impatiently...
- 8/10/2009
- IrishCentral
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