The critics ravaged the movie, but none of them ever won so much as a toilet seat, let alone an Academy Award. David Lean's movies won, I believe, 18 Oscars in his career and for me, Ryan's Daughter was one of his best. I wached it three nights in a row in 1971, in Hawaii and remember telling everyone that I knew that a village idiot , who never spoke a word in the movie was going to win an Oscar. I was right. John Mills won it for Best Supporting Actor. Great, great movie. An epic.
my favorite movie through the eyes of my mother who loved this , i was young but to this day i love this movie, a treasure for sure! i just bought it on dvd and id love to share it with my nieces who i told how much their gramma loved this film.......
@chrismith081 i first saw this because my mother was watching it years ago. Ever since then, it has been my favorite movie. I bought it on dvd too. My mother was Irish and my father is English so it's interesting see the two sides depicted in the movie.
0000H! Thanks for posting this! I wanted to hear what the song "It Was A Good Time" originally sounded like from the film. I really don't care to see the film. I just love the song. :) Aside from Liza M singing it, there is a polka version, too. But can't find it. Maybe within the film, itself?
Can anyone please upload this entire wonderful movie? Please? I saw it in the show when I was 15 years old and enjoyed it. I have seen it once on a late night special but nothing since and have not been able to rent it for it is not available. Why won't this post?
Can anyone please upload this entire wonderful movie? Please? I saw it in the show when I was 15 years old and enjoyed it. I have seen it once on a late night special but nothing since and have not been able to rent it for it is not available.
Considering the fact that Major Doryan has fought to stay alive during the first world war, then why did he commit suicide with dynamites and stuff at the end? I didn't really understand that, although this ending is also perfectly thought about. It should be among the classics.
@caytiryakisi28 He's obviously severed mentally disturbed by the way which manifests itself in the shellshock thats triggered with any sound that resembles artillery or explosions. Plus, possibly the guilt he felt over having betrayed his wife and the guilt of coming between Rosie and her husband.
folks, understand that this movie takes place in 1916, not 1969 when it was made. How could someone say Lean was exploiting every Irish stereotype. The costuming, language, morals were how people behaved. It's the middle of WW1, men are dying by the thousands in France. While I do think Jones is miscast, he is ably directed by Lean. It makes no sense to say the movie is fine but is ruined by Lean's ego. Thats an oxymoron. The movie was Lean's baby, for better or worse.
The idea of making a sequel to this great movie is laughable.....after all there is no longer a David Lean, Freddy Young, Bob Mitchum, Trevor Howard or Leo McKern and a host of great Irish actors to make such a movie possible. No, the time for such epics has passed into history and we are left with the legacy of so many talented people....the likes of which we will never see again, R.I.P. to all of them.
I saw this movie last night. I think it is a brillant movie. The ending scene is profound. Rose used to be a spoiled princess and saw Michael as an outcast. But while waiting for the bus she sees herself just like Michael; an outsider in society stigmatized by the opinions of the self righteous towns people.
IT is a beautiful film that suffers from David Lean's BLOATED EGO...BUT still a good film. Christopher Jones is SO DAMN MISCAST in this film..so much soooooo. his voice is dubbed. Beautiful Cinematography by Freddie Young...Music by Maurice Jarre..and a great underrated performance by Robert Mitchum. But it is David Lean who OVER DOES RYAN'S DAUGHTER IN SUCH A GRAND SCALE....that everyone is lost.
Anthony Hopkins would make a decent Father Collins, Colin Firth as Shunnessy perhaps, no just kidding, but serious its best left as it is, you'll never get the mood and atmosphere of a remake as good as Leans directing and filming.
apparently Sarah Miles is invlolved in the 'sequel' that's being touted...good or bad idea? Unsure myself. On one hand would love to know what became of Rosy & Charles...on the other, should we leave perfection alone?
The entire movie is hauntingly beautiful with perfect cast, from the boring Mitchum to the lustful Sarah Miles. The sceneries are so romantically involved they are a living part of the story and not just the background. The only nitpick is that the film is just too long to sit through.
Ezt a filmet Magyarországon még nem vetítették le! 1970-1990-2009 soha még! Én levelet írtam 1990-ben, amikor a ruszki megszállóknak ki kellett innen takarodni, hogy ezt a filmet végre vásárolják meg és fordítsák le magyar nyelvre is és adják le a TV-ben! Ha már moziban sem látni itt. És nem is válaszoltak a levelemre. Mondjátok el mindenkinek! Please!
this wonderful movie is right up there with Lean's 'Lawrence' and 'Zhivago'. RD is a simple story of cuckold told on a sumptuous colossal scale. If Lean made this movie in the early 60s the sex scenes wouldnt be there but it would be just as good and probably better received. The end of the 60s saw change in cinema as regards to sex on screen. Lean experimented in RD but didn't get pornographic. Lean was a great artist a painter who used a camera as his brush and movie screen as his easel.
It is the end-theme that does it for me, on the 2 disc dvd (now only £4UKS-more when I bought) at the play menu option this repeats and it is this that I would like as a ringtone or download
David Lean made depression a compulsive drug with this film. It's spell is truly amazing and time will be the real test, not just a few short sighted American critics too fond of their own voices. A remarkable achievement on every level. Lean doesn't put a foot wrong.
It's a beautifully shot film, and it's a pity it received such criticism. It did bring David Lean's reputation as the grandmaster of the epic vision crashing down around him. It was a troubled shoot certainly, weather problems didn't help, (Lean had to eventually shoot some beach shots in South Africa.) When the film came out, it seemed dated in comparison to films such as Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy, but it's certainly a film which deserves a reappraisal and a second chance...
Several old friends of mine worked as extras during the filming of Ryan's Daughter, and they tell one funny story of how frustrating Robert Mitchum found the protracted shoot...One day after David Lean had spent several hours arranging and re-arranging a small group of extras, Mitchum flew into a rage, ran in front of David Lean, dropped his trousers and turned his behind to the camara. Gestering to the extras he roared,"you've filmed every God damn bum in Ireland now film mine"
Every scene here is a piece of art. Pity it got panned. David Lean did not not make another movie until Passage to India after a the raft of criticism this received. we have probably missed out on 3 great epics as a result...
@AngusBalfour It was so underrated it broke Bolt's heart, but it perfectly captures the elements of l9l6 - the Irish thirst for independence, the English officer shocked and ruined by the war, a passionate girl thwarted by an unromantic husband. A work of genius that is being recognised at last.
Was it 1916? I thought it was after the great war finished, as there is a reference that Major Doryan fought at the 2nd Battle of the Marne 1918, that's why he was assigned to the village afterwards for. But you are very right about the film it is a work of genius.
@Woodlander65 Well spotted Woodlander! Seems a bit of a silly mistake to make now that its been pointed out to me. The Movie begins (ie when Mitchum arrives as well as the Major) sometime in late April/early May 1916, ie just after the rebellion but before the executions.
@Woodlander65 I read a book about the movie and apparently time moves slowly-that Rosy and Charles had been married for two years when the major comes.
Robert Mitchum was so good in this film. So was Trevor Howard who played the priest. I can't believe how underrated and overlooked this masterpiece is!!
@ladylike1980 It was a daring bit of casting, placing tough guy Mitchum in the role of an ineffectual cuckold. Lean caught all kinds of hell for it. But there are few films which showcase Mitchum's abilities better than this one.
I think we should all go easy on christopher jones during the shooting sharon tate one of his best friends at the time was murdered and i think this affected him. He wasnt that bad, and i agree with the film as a whole it was under rated. John mills was supurb.
If you want to see 'REAL' filmmaking, just watch the scene where Christopher Jones makes his entrance with the Blasket Islands behind him.....incredible. The late, great Freddie Young shot this picture in 70mm. Superb.
along similar lines to what you said, annedaly12345, my fav shot (of ANY film) is where Rosy is standing outside the school, at dusk, with the islands beyond. Truly stunning.
It is a great movie terrencemallick9, I believe it got a lot of bad press back when released first, cant understand that! But maybe just as well, as its sort of a hidden classic and not overplayed ;-)
This was a very powerful, deep meaning movie - a classic. One for the thinking man. I think it was one of Lean's best.
Thornbird2455 2 months ago
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I loved this movie so much I bought the DVD.
hahamontana 4 months ago
I don't think Michael was really the village idiot- he seemed quite shrewd, but unable to express his feelings in words.
coralarch 4 months ago
@campbellscampfriend They gave Shakespeare to the world and that includes Ireland.
coralarch 4 months ago
This was a serious disappointment for me as I love David Lean but Ryan's Daughter is awful.
johnyzero2000 5 months ago
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The critics ravaged the movie, but none of them ever won so much as a toilet seat, let alone an Academy Award. David Lean's movies won, I believe, 18 Oscars in his career and for me, Ryan's Daughter was one of his best. I wached it three nights in a row in 1971, in Hawaii and remember telling everyone that I knew that a village idiot , who never spoke a word in the movie was going to win an Oscar. I was right. John Mills won it for Best Supporting Actor. Great, great movie. An epic.
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9386265 9 months ago
my favorite movie through the eyes of my mother who loved this , i was young but to this day i love this movie, a treasure for sure! i just bought it on dvd and id love to share it with my nieces who i told how much their gramma loved this film.......
chrismith081 11 months ago
@chrismith081 i first saw this because my mother was watching it years ago. Ever since then, it has been my favorite movie. I bought it on dvd too. My mother was Irish and my father is English so it's interesting see the two sides depicted in the movie.
tmwstw99 9 months ago
the feelings it evoked of when a woman I was crazy about was playing around or so I thought and the Mitchum character so hurt and so in love
justhavingmydinner 1 year ago
This film was panned by the critics so much so David Lean didn't make another film for 12 years.
royalboy 1 year ago
0000H! Thanks for posting this! I wanted to hear what the song "It Was A Good Time" originally sounded like from the film. I really don't care to see the film. I just love the song. :) Aside from Liza M singing it, there is a polka version, too. But can't find it. Maybe within the film, itself?
Glinkaism1 1 year ago
MY VERY FAVOURITE FILM OF ALL TIME WITHOUT DOUBT!
bobvocal 1 year ago
Can anyone please upload this entire wonderful movie? Please? I saw it in the show when I was 15 years old and enjoyed it. I have seen it once on a late night special but nothing since and have not been able to rent it for it is not available. Why won't this post?
keedo45 1 year ago
Can anyone please upload this entire wonderful movie? Please? I saw it in the show when I was 15 years old and enjoyed it. I have seen it once on a late night special but nothing since and have not been able to rent it for it is not available.
keedo45 1 year ago
@keedo45 I saw on TCM at one o clock in the morning. It was quite good, actually.
Bilbo490 1 year ago
Considering the fact that Major Doryan has fought to stay alive during the first world war, then why did he commit suicide with dynamites and stuff at the end? I didn't really understand that, although this ending is also perfectly thought about. It should be among the classics.
caytiryakisi28 1 year ago
@caytiryakisi28 He's obviously severed mentally disturbed by the way which manifests itself in the shellshock thats triggered with any sound that resembles artillery or explosions. Plus, possibly the guilt he felt over having betrayed his wife and the guilt of coming between Rosie and her husband.
CroppyBoy1798 1 year ago
'disturbed by the war' I meant to say.
CroppyBoy1798 1 year ago
pia
Ramirooouhhh 1 year ago
beautiful,timeless
tricker1957 1 year ago
Great moment at 3:15 - Rosy finally realizes what it's like to be gawked at as a freak.
elperromagico 1 year ago
folks, understand that this movie takes place in 1916, not 1969 when it was made. How could someone say Lean was exploiting every Irish stereotype. The costuming, language, morals were how people behaved. It's the middle of WW1, men are dying by the thousands in France. While I do think Jones is miscast, he is ably directed by Lean. It makes no sense to say the movie is fine but is ruined by Lean's ego. Thats an oxymoron. The movie was Lean's baby, for better or worse.
deepseadirt 1 year ago
The idea of making a sequel to this great movie is laughable.....after all there is no longer a David Lean, Freddy Young, Bob Mitchum, Trevor Howard or Leo McKern and a host of great Irish actors to make such a movie possible. No, the time for such epics has passed into history and we are left with the legacy of so many talented people....the likes of which we will never see again, R.I.P. to all of them.
river2walk 1 year ago
UFOSPACE - That's some egotistical review
surreydodger 1 year ago
I saw this movie last night. I think it is a brillant movie. The ending scene is profound. Rose used to be a spoiled princess and saw Michael as an outcast. But while waiting for the bus she sees herself just like Michael; an outsider in society stigmatized by the opinions of the self righteous towns people.
micjnoonan 1 year ago
IT is a beautiful film that suffers from David Lean's BLOATED EGO...BUT still a good film. Christopher Jones is SO DAMN MISCAST in this film..so much soooooo. his voice is dubbed. Beautiful Cinematography by Freddie Young...Music by Maurice Jarre..and a great underrated performance by Robert Mitchum. But it is David Lean who OVER DOES RYAN'S DAUGHTER IN SUCH A GRAND SCALE....that everyone is lost.
UFOSPACE1999 1 year ago
I doubt that anybody could make a sequel to touch the original.Leave it as is.The beautiful music makes the movie complete.
zen12330 2 years ago
Sir David exploits every Irish stereotype in this awful film. Trevor Howard an Irish priest? Saints preserve us!
mcbreen1 2 years ago
Absolutely brilliant film score though, truly a heartbreaker.
j0andc0 2 years ago 5
Anthony Hopkins would make a decent Father Collins, Colin Firth as Shunnessy perhaps, no just kidding, but serious its best left as it is, you'll never get the mood and atmosphere of a remake as good as Leans directing and filming.
j0andc0 2 years ago
Jonny Vegas doing the John Mills
fnslr308 2 years ago
apparently Sarah Miles is invlolved in the 'sequel' that's being touted...good or bad idea? Unsure myself. On one hand would love to know what became of Rosy & Charles...on the other, should we leave perfection alone?
rossobantam 2 years ago 3
Anyone who could even think of making a decent sequel to this movie is dead. Leave it alone, I say.
movie534 2 years ago 5
The industry does seem to be trawling around for remakes with Leonardo de Caprio as Major and Beyonce as her etc.
fnslr308 2 years ago
rosso - yeah. Bit like revisiting the house you were born in. Best left.
Certainly perfection. I lent the in-laws my dvd and never seen it since hence moping here.
During my formative years it was a girls film (they all fancied the Major), and we'd just be laddish and take mick out of it.
I only saw the whole thing on buying the recent re-release dvd.
wonderful
fnslr308 2 years ago
Is this true? If so I am staggered! Like you rightly suggest perfection should be left alone.
alfriendo2008 2 years ago
leave well alone...
fnslr308 2 years ago
I like to think that it is actually a documentary and not a film with actors.
The opening scene of sunrise, up to 2:00 and the accompanying music just cannot be bettered.
The end theme (with longer version on amazon dvd) is just lovely.
The love scene is not cliched, and tender without being in any way gratuitous or graphic.
Dream like, fave film
fnslr308 2 years ago 2
The entire movie is hauntingly beautiful with perfect cast, from the boring Mitchum to the lustful Sarah Miles. The sceneries are so romantically involved they are a living part of the story and not just the background. The only nitpick is that the film is just too long to sit through.
vdtmh 2 years ago
Ezt a filmet Magyarországon még nem vetítették le! 1970-1990-2009 soha még! Én levelet írtam 1990-ben, amikor a ruszki megszállóknak ki kellett innen takarodni, hogy ezt a filmet végre vásárolják meg és fordítsák le magyar nyelvre is és adják le a TV-ben! Ha már moziban sem látni itt. És nem is válaszoltak a levelemre. Mondjátok el mindenkinek! Please!
yence1 2 years ago
So beautiful, the breathtaking irish landscape and the hauting score!!!!!!! truely a work of art!!!!!!!
b56123 2 years ago 2
Does anyone know how I could get the end-theme (not some poor version) as a ring-tone??
I have the (superb) boxed DVD, and when selecting play/scenes/etc it uses the full end-theme twice.
Thanks
fnslr308 2 years ago
This part of Ireland is very, very beautiful and this music is nearly as good!! The film is perfecto!!!
HallOfFamerInit 2 years ago
please put the whole film on as i grew up with this and it brings good memotys back thanx
snuffingtown 3 years ago
but you can buy the whole boxed set on amazon at £4UK Sterling
fnslr308 2 years ago
I think it quite shocking you upload this without so much of a mention in your tags for Maurice Jarre.
Elibobbob 3 years ago
Beware - dvd set "the making off" shows a bunch of well to do luvvies behind it and spoils the magic.
..john mills was a neighbour and we thought etc etc-leading lady scriptwriters wife etc [wish I'd not watched that cos film+music all time favourite]
fnslr308 3 years ago
this wonderful movie is right up there with Lean's 'Lawrence' and 'Zhivago'. RD is a simple story of cuckold told on a sumptuous colossal scale. If Lean made this movie in the early 60s the sex scenes wouldnt be there but it would be just as good and probably better received. The end of the 60s saw change in cinema as regards to sex on screen. Lean experimented in RD but didn't get pornographic. Lean was a great artist a painter who used a camera as his brush and movie screen as his easel.
deepseadirt 3 years ago
I'd forgottten how beautifully haunting the music was to this film.
alfriendo2008 3 years ago 6
Agreed. There is far worse "Classical Music".
It is the end-theme that does it for me, on the 2 disc dvd (now only £4UKS-more when I bought) at the play menu option this repeats and it is this that I would like as a ringtone or download
fnslr308 3 years ago
Great! I like this film very much! Thanks for posting it!
franzkafka1010 3 years ago
Lost to time! Oh, the nostalgia of it all.
Savant28 3 years ago 6
my favourite film..so beautiful to look at, & such music! A wonderfully touching love story, yet hardly a word spoken between them.
rossobantam 4 years ago 4
David Lean made depression a compulsive drug with this film. It's spell is truly amazing and time will be the real test, not just a few short sighted American critics too fond of their own voices. A remarkable achievement on every level. Lean doesn't put a foot wrong.
rupert2591 4 years ago 6
It's a beautifully shot film, and it's a pity it received such criticism. It did bring David Lean's reputation as the grandmaster of the epic vision crashing down around him. It was a troubled shoot certainly, weather problems didn't help, (Lean had to eventually shoot some beach shots in South Africa.) When the film came out, it seemed dated in comparison to films such as Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy, but it's certainly a film which deserves a reappraisal and a second chance...
DonaldMcKinney 4 years ago 3
Several old friends of mine worked as extras during the filming of Ryan's Daughter, and they tell one funny story of how frustrating Robert Mitchum found the protracted shoot...One day after David Lean had spent several hours arranging and re-arranging a small group of extras, Mitchum flew into a rage, ran in front of David Lean, dropped his trousers and turned his behind to the camara. Gestering to the extras he roared,"you've filmed every God damn bum in Ireland now film mine"
river2walk 4 years ago 2
bought the dvd absolutley terrific.
38208766 4 years ago 3
SPLENDID FILM!
weeknightingale 4 years ago 2
Every scene here is a piece of art. Pity it got panned. David Lean did not not make another movie until Passage to India after a the raft of criticism this received. we have probably missed out on 3 great epics as a result...
Lisa W.
LisaSusanRose 4 years ago 6
Brilliant film, and Maurice Jarres film score is a thing of beauty.
AngusBalfour 4 years ago 16
@AngusBalfour It was so underrated it broke Bolt's heart, but it perfectly captures the elements of l9l6 - the Irish thirst for independence, the English officer shocked and ruined by the war, a passionate girl thwarted by an unromantic husband. A work of genius that is being recognised at last.
noleyplatz 1 year ago
@noleyplatz
Was it 1916? I thought it was after the great war finished, as there is a reference that Major Doryan fought at the 2nd Battle of the Marne 1918, that's why he was assigned to the village afterwards for. But you are very right about the film it is a work of genius.
Woodlander65 1 year ago
@Woodlander65 Well spotted Woodlander! Seems a bit of a silly mistake to make now that its been pointed out to me. The Movie begins (ie when Mitchum arrives as well as the Major) sometime in late April/early May 1916, ie just after the rebellion but before the executions.
CroppyBoy1798 1 year ago
@Woodlander65 I read a book about the movie and apparently time moves slowly-that Rosy and Charles had been married for two years when the major comes.
Jenniferkate 1 year ago
this is my favorite movie!
I love the history and music....very special...
mreginaaa 4 years ago 6
This movie could not be made today because it has no special effects and is slow-paced by today's standards. But it is a work of art.
jscottupton 4 years ago 5
I saw this movie when it came out love it so so much. I am for ever looking in video places to see if I can find it to buy
38208766 4 years ago 3
It's out now on dvd - a two disc special edition to be precise! ^_^
livefortheday 4 years ago 3
I saw this movie 6 times on the cinema when it cames. I think it is one of the greatests films realised 'till today. I loved it so very much! Thanks!
pjpso54 4 years ago 6
Robert Mitchum was so good in this film. So was Trevor Howard who played the priest. I can't believe how underrated and overlooked this masterpiece is!!
ladylike1980 4 years ago 14
@ladylike1980 It was a daring bit of casting, placing tough guy Mitchum in the role of an ineffectual cuckold. Lean caught all kinds of hell for it. But there are few films which showcase Mitchum's abilities better than this one.
elperromagico 1 year ago
Go raibh maith agat do Croppy Boy 1798, stay dry in Carlow! Cheers from sunny Boston!
kmcsweet2 4 years ago
I think we should all go easy on christopher jones during the shooting sharon tate one of his best friends at the time was murdered and i think this affected him. He wasnt that bad, and i agree with the film as a whole it was under rated. John mills was supurb.
Dementedhighlander 4 years ago 3
If you want to see 'REAL' filmmaking, just watch the scene where Christopher Jones makes his entrance with the Blasket Islands behind him.....incredible. The late, great Freddie Young shot this picture in 70mm. Superb.
annedaly12345 4 years ago
along similar lines to what you said, annedaly12345, my fav shot (of ANY film) is where Rosy is standing outside the school, at dusk, with the islands beyond. Truly stunning.
rossobantam 4 years ago
Sad to say - but that nice young man's suicide/beach scene is attractive with the setting sun etc.
I need to get out more.
The opening sunrise amazing too
fnslr308 3 years ago
This is a beautiful movie and John Mills portrayal of Michael is superb.
Trudeau790 4 years ago
I absolutely agree with you Terrence. I watched this for the first time very recently and I adored it. AMAZING cinimaphotography.
Karenenglishrose 5 years ago
It is a great movie terrencemallick9, I believe it got a lot of bad press back when released first, cant understand that! But maybe just as well, as its sort of a hidden classic and not overplayed ;-)
CroppyBoy1798 5 years ago
I adore this film. Horrifically underrated. Christopher Jones was kind of terrible, yes, but the amazing rest of the cast ovverid him with a flick.
terrencemalick9 5 years ago