The Molly Maguires (trailer)

[bobgrantsbus]

Cracking film.

[TheKenfig]

@bobgrantsbus Got it on dvd ; top movie never on telly these days. Another favourite with Connery in is The Hill (1965). Good actor aside from Bond films. Oh, and The Man Who Would Be King

[bobgrantsbus]

@TheKenfig The Hill is a cracking film showing Connery's ability outside the Bond franchise.

[Sandwhaler]

Irish-American miners led by a Scotsman?

[999YORK]

My grandfathers worked in the mines in the same area. They were not Irish, but my sympathy goes to the Molly Maguires.

[CelestialWoodway]

Great movie.

[br4563rt3ed]

There is a pub in Ballyconnell,County Cavan,Ireland named The Molly Maguires,named after the irish freedom fighters!!!

[CelestialWoodway]

@br4563rt3ed Bar in Houston, Texas also. 15945 Kuykendahl, Houston, TX Molly Maguires is a great little hangout. There's pool, ping-pong, and darts, a good selection of beer, and a decent jukebox.



[sharaIantam]

The Tory cunt JuanMacready has been banned from YouTube but keep an eye out for the autistic asshole. He'll be back soon with a new alias!! You can't miss the cunt!! He just does a continual re-run of the same old shithead comments!!! We'll just have the boring little fucker banned again!!!! LOL I hear Prince William

wants Juanmacready and his welfare benefit fraudster dad to clean

up the horseshit after the royal carriage. Just the job for the dirty bastards!! LOL

[Ranchermedic]

filmed near Freeland Pa Eckly Miners Village

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[Ranchermedic]

Part of this movie filmed at Eckley Miners Village near Freeland Pa

[Smoke4Freedom]

Is this film historically accurate or is it as accurate as those Irish accents?

[Tensaiga17]

Man whenever the elite want something, it's called "progress," but when the workers want something, it's called "radical change." America is a farce

[indyfan22k]

@Tensaiga17

Excellent Comment !!!

[cuttzizzle]

Great classic movie! I'm a Schuylkill County native now living in Montana. Watching this movie is a prerequisite before enjoying St. Patrick's Day in Butte, Montana each year.

[Pearsey]

This is a very good, realistic depiction of the working conditions the miners had. The scenes of children working on a "breaker" I guess it's called, sorting through coal is almost unbelievable. Every year dozens of men/boys died in accidents. The soundtrack is excellent.

[badflamenco]

One of the most telling scenes in this film is the payroll scene, where the paymaster tallies up the miner's productivity and announces a tidy sum, then holds up a finger and says :" DE-DUCT!!". The paymaster then goes on to list the cost of every stick of dynamite the miner used, every length of fuse, and every drill bit broken drilling the holes. When the paymaster announces "Net Pay", it is a pittance.

I drive a cab, and this shit still goes on today.

[robzombie08]

my great great great uncle was Alec Campbell

[catman5529]

@robzombie08 My father was Ron Jeremey

[johnanthonyp]

This trailer doesn't do justice to this film. It's the sit down face off between these stellar actors that is incredible, Highly emotive Irish but once again the Jewish ( I aint anti ) spiel kind of ruins it. Perhaps the Irish should be French. Respond sil vous plat, humorously, if you like, to yous. Whos' the funniest through pain?

[BobDawg173]

I live just south of this place.

[monoceros1222]

Just saw this movie for the 1st time after visiting the town of Jim Thorpe, PA, where some of it was filmed. I really enjoyed it!!

[JuanMacready]

Slow and boring movie which rightly flopped.

[spagandtuna]

@JuanMacready I reluctantly have to agree with you. All the right elements were there to make this a good film and they didn't pull it off. And the ridiculousness of putting Harris into the cell with Connery at the end. What else would you expect?

[JuanMacready]

With a better pace and script it might have worked. As it was the film's failure ensured Richard Harris never became a star in Hollywood.

[spagandtuna]

@JuanMacready Yes about the pacing. But I don't think this movie was the deciding factor re Harris' lack of Hollywood success. I'm sure that was his lifestyle. Just three years before he did put in a good performance in Camelot, no?

[JuanMacready]

Wasn't Camelot a critical and financial disappointment though?

[spagandtuna]

@JuanMacready Just looked it up and the film won three minor Oscars; Harris got a Golden Globe. What I remember was I liked Harris in this. I think the larger issue for him was perhaps that despite a lot of apparent talent, he didn't live up to expectations and that the reasons for this really evolved around his notorious alcoholism--didn't he collapse drunk on stage at least once?

[JuanMacready]

I think they were hoping Camelot would be a huge success like The Sound of Music. Harris often fell over in the late 1970s because he was a massive cocaine addict and had a condition where there is too much sugar in the blood.

[spagandtuna]

@JuanMacready By the late 60's the movie musical was definitely on its way out. Thoroughly Modern Millie, Star!, Dr. Doolitle, Goodbye, Mr Chips, flops all---only Oliver seemed to buck this trend. So what hope did poor Camelot have?

[JuanMacready]

True. I guess it might have helped if they'd cast people who could actually sing.

[spagandtuna]

@JuanMacready Well, if you're talking about Camelot. That's a good point. Was anything dubbed?

[JuanMacready]

All of Franco Nero's singing was dubbed.

[spagandtuna]

@JuanMacready But not Redgrave?

[JuanMacready]

No, but they should have dubbed her. Her rendition of The Simple Joys of Maidenhood was ghastly.

[WackyVison]

My Great, Great, Great, Grandfather was part of the Molly Maguires

[jjcstrat]

Just got back from visiting the Old City Jail in Jim Thorpe, PA where part of this movie was filmed. Great tour.

[xxxEllenxx]

d000d, i live in the Village where they filmed it! :DD

[getorphan]

I have a friend who was one of the breaker boys in the movie. Shows you how long ago that was. Filmed nearby hazelton pa

[kidkong584]

I LIVE IN THE TOWN WHERE THE MOLLY MAGUIRE MURDERS TOOK PLACE! i didnt know these murders were this famous!

[coralarch]

kidkong- yes, they were well known. I often wonder if my great uncle knew them- he migrated from Derry to USA as a miner.

[gigiluvz2cheer]

i love living in our area!!!! isnt it sweet??? the movie was actually based around the shenandoah and girardville mines but of coares only Jim Thorpe and Pottsville are given the credit. but its still really cool how popular something like this is

[kidkong584]

yea

[mrsmagloo]

Oh, I've been dying to go there! My husband and daughter are direct descendants of a miner!

[binkle1]

P.S. I named my daughter Molly because of this movie (big Richard Harris fan) LONG BEFORE I knew that her great-grandfather had been born in what is now Jim Thorpe and had actually worked at the Eckley mine as a breaker boy. He later moved to the Pittsburgh area and was a mine supervisor. I remember watching a documentary on the making of this movie way back in 1969, when I was living in Massachusetts! Ain't life strange?

[monoceros1222]

@binkle1 That's a cool story. I'm from Pittsburgh, just came back from visiting Jim Thorpe, consequently decided to see the Molly Maguires on DVD last night!

[monoceros1222]

@kidkong584 I just visited Jim Thorpe, PA. Very nice town!! The movie is a classic.

[kidkong584]

@monoceros1222

yeah, i guess it is.

[lpoko2008]

Sean Conery is my dad.

[coralarch]

lpoko, strange that you can't spell your dad's name correctly, isn't it?

[mrsmagloo]

Give him a break! I used to be an editor and proof-reader, and I still make typos! ;) Sean is STILL hot!

[mrsmagloo]

Don't I wish? Sexy!

[joang863]

Does anyone know if the soundtrack music is available?

[ProximoX0X]

This was a great movie