Daniel Day-Lewis in 'How Many Miles To Babylon?', 1982

Another clip of Daniel Day-Lewis in an early role, this time in the 1982 BBC adaptation of acclaimed Irish writer Jennifer Johnston's novel of WWI, 'How Many Miles To Babylon?'. Daniel plays Alexander Moore, a wealthy Anglo-Irishman whose friendship with Jerry Crowe, a working class local, is tested by class differences and the war. In this clip, Alexander resists his mother's demands that he join the army. Mrs. Moore is played by the great Sian Phillips, who would play Daniel's mother once again about 20 years later in Martin Scorsese's film of 'The Age Of Innocence'.

(And on a side note: DDL is positively baby-faced here!)

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[shagfish]

Thank you Emma! I check You Tube every week to see what rare DDL clip you've uploaded!

[miller18]

Thanks, Emma. You truly have a treasure trove of amazing clips.

[NiallMS]

To Picasso there were two sorts of women; Godesses and doormats. Well here's a third one: BITCH!!

[brigibrigdale]

@xGolfinhox check a torrent site it will be free

[xGolfinhox]

I want to watch dis film soo bad!!! where can I get it from? pls pls

[xjen11x]

anyone know where i can watch the whole bbc production?

[RooneyMufc10]

@tilleyjr what accents do you expect them to have? lol. they're the poshest of the posh

[videolover2308]

same here im studying this for my leaving cert/college entrance exams/gcse's

and i want to study it from a different presective other than reading the book and reviews and answering questions on it

[videolover2308]

same here im studying this for my leaving cert/college entrance exams/gcse's

and i want to study it from a different presective other than reading the book and reviews and answering questions

[neverforgetthe96]

@XblCheeseofdeath2008 in the beginning

[ChrisPBacon2010]

anyone know where i can download this movie cause i'm doing it for my leaving cert and i want to go over it one more time outside of school where there's no distractions and i'm not much into reading :/