In 1941, in wartime U.K., two Irish brothers working for the I.R.A. come against their local leader's ruthless methods.In 1941, in wartime U.K., two Irish brothers working for the I.R.A. come against their local leader's ruthless methods.In 1941, in wartime U.K., two Irish brothers working for the I.R.A. come against their local leader's ruthless methods.
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Jack MacGowran
- Patsy McGuire
- (as Jack McGowran)
Terence Alexander
- Ship's Officer
- (uncredited)
Harry Brogan
- Barney
- (uncredited)
Edward Byrne
- Ambulance Attendant
- (uncredited)
Patric Doonan
- Sentry
- (uncredited)
Stephen Dunne
- Brennan
- (uncredited)
Harry Hutchinson
- Bill - Detective
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaQuote: Englishman: "The situation in England is serious, but it's never hopeless" Irishman: "The situation in Ireland is hopeless, but it's never serious" .
- GoofsThe car which is used to escape after the shootout with the prison vehicle has different number plates front and back. DZ 7563 on the front and ZC 6034 on the rear.It has the DZ plate when the arrives at the scene. DZ would be a Co Antrim registration, ZC would be Dublin.
It appears that two different cars were used as the Northern car also has an extra spotlight on the front and no padlock on the wiper.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prologue: NORTHERN IRELAND 1941
- ConnectionsFeatured in Century of Cinema: Ourselves Alone? (1995)
- SoundtracksMoonshiner
(uncredited)
Traditional
Arranged by Delia Murphy
Featured review
Poorly written and acted
This is a truly woeful effort from Ealing.So much about it is wrong.Most of the actors are ill suited to their roles and end up speaking like Barry Fitzgerald.Characters are underwritten.John Mills part in particular.Also the action is ridiculous.IRA men are taken to serve a sentence in Belfast!When the guards discover an intruder in the docks they don't guess what he is after.John Mills is allowed on a navy ship without question and then gets away.Naturally unshown as the writer could not dream up a plausible way of showing this.Despite the fact that the 2 prisoners have escaped the prison van still shows up at the yard.Difficult to know who the studios were aiming at with this film and little surprise that it had only a short time left of its existence.
- malcolmgsw
- Jul 21, 2014
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Bombe im U-Bahn-Schacht
- Filming locations
- Ealing Studios, Ealing, London, England, UK(studio: made at Ealing Studios, London, England.)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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