Event Details
Wounded IRA fugitive Johnny McQueen (James Mason) flees through wintry Belfast, encountering strangers while reuniting with his lover. Over 24 hours, the exhausted McQueen displays the growing desperation of man with nowhere left to turn.
Shooting on the streets of West Belfast in Northern Ireland and in Hackney, London, filmmaker Carol Reed employs the evocative locations and stark cinematography that would come to define his later film The Third Man (1949). Few directors in the 1940s matched Reed’s fatalistic intensity, transforming mundane details into evocations of an unbalanced world.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1947 | 116 min. | UK | Black-and-White | English | Not Rated | DCP
DIRECTED BY: Carol Reed
WRITTEN BY: F. L. Green, R. C. Sherriff
WITH: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, F. J. McCormick