Ryan's Daughter is a 1970 film directed by David Lean. The film, set in 1916, tells the story of a married Irish woman who has an affair with a British officer during World War I, despite opposition from her nationalist neighbours. The film is a very loose adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary. The film stars Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, John Mills, Christopher Jones, Trevor Howard and Leo McKern, with a score by Maurice Jarre. It was photographed in Super Panavision 70 by Freddie Young. In its initial release, Ryan's Daughter was harshly received by critics but was a box... office success, grossing nearly $31 million on a budget of $13.3 million, making the film the eighth highest-grossing picture of 1970. However, it ended up winning two Academy Awards. The film takes place in the isolated village on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry Ireland during World War I. Rosy Ryan is bored with her humdrum life and fantasizes about the outside world — much to the chagrin of the local priest, Father Hugh Collins , an old, sharp-witted and highly influential person who knows all that goes on in the village.
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| Release date: | 1970 |
| Directed by: | David Lean |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 195 Minutes |
| Producer: | Anthony Havelock-Allan |
| Editor: | Norman Savage |
| Music by: | Maurice Jarre |
| Cinematography: | Freddie Young |
| Screenplay by: | Robert Bolt |
| Estimated budget: | $15,000,000 |