Rooney (1958)

★ 5.5 1h 28m IMDb

The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.

Rooney

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Cast

John Gregson
John Gregson as James Ignatius Rooney Died 1975 · Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Gregson  (15 March 1919 – 8 January 1975) was an English actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Gregson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full l...
Muriel Pavlow
Muriel Pavlow as Maire Hogan Died 2019 · Lewisham, London, England, UK From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Muriel Pavlow (born 27 June 1921, died 19 January 2019) was a British actress. Her mother was French and her father was Russian. She married the actor Derek Farr...
Barry Fitzgerald
Barry Fitzgerald as Grandfather Died 1961 · Dublin, Ireland Brother of actor Arthur Shields, with whom he performed in several films, most notably John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952). One of the very few character actors ever to achieve star status. Fitzgerald w...
June Thorburn
June Thorburn as Doreen O' Flynn Died 1967 · Karachi, British India June Thorburn (8 June 1931 – 4 November 1967) was a popular English actress whose career was cut short by her death in an air crash. She was pregnant with her third child when returning to London from...
Noel Purcell
Noel Purcell as Tim Hennessy Died 1985 · Dublin, Ireland Patrick Joseph Noel Purcell (23 December 1900 – 3 March 1985) was a distinguished Irish actor on stage, screen, and television. He appeared in the 1956 film Moby Dick and the 1962 film Mutiny on the B...
Marie Kean
Marie Kean as Mrs O'Flynn Died 1993 · Rush, Dublin, Ireland Marie Kean was an Irish stage and screen actress, with a career spanning over 40 years, The Stage called her one of Ireland's most impressive actresses, and "an artist of considerable emotional depth...

Audience Reviews

CinemaSerf 6/10 Jan 10, 2023
John Gregson turns in quite an amiable performance here as the eponymous Dublin bin man turned athlete. By day, he collects rubbish whilst at the weekends, he plays the lethal game of the "hurley" - and it's this that draws the attention of local bigwig "Doolan" (Liam Redmond) who helps him to find better lodgings. Safely ensconced, he meets "Maire" (Muriel Pavlov) who lives with her ailing, elderly, grandfather (Barry Fitzgerald) and his rather grumpy daughter "Mrs. O"Flynn" (Marie Kean). Can he make good on his sporting promise, survive all the familial discord and get the gal? It's very un-Catherine Cookson, this - but that just demonstrates a little of the versatility of an author who could update her stories as the need called for it. Despite being as English as the Thames, Gregson - maybe not so well when drunk - is engaging as the charming Irishman and I rather liked Kean's contributions as the stern "Miss Gulch"-esque woman who certainly never has an half full glass! Sure, it's all pretty predictable, but it serves as a nice reminder of late 1950s Dublin, and offers a watchable family drama that is characterful and well paced.

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