Young Cassidy is a 1965 film directed by Jack Cardiff and John Ford. The film stars Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, and Maggie Smith. The film is a biographical drama based upon the life of the playwright Sean O'Casey. Set in 1911 and the growing protest against British rule in Ireland, young John Cassidy is a labourer by day and a pamphleteer by night. When the pamphlets he has written incite riots, Cassidy realizes he can do more for his people with the pen than with the sword. He writes a new play, The Plough and the Stars, which he submits to the Abbey Theatre , and is surprised when W.B.... Yeats, the founder of the Abbey, accepts and produces his new play. The opening of the play causes the audience to riot, and he loses many friends; but he is undeterred and is soon acclaimed as Ireland's outstanding young playwright.
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| Release date: | 1965 |
| Directed by: | Jack Cardiff, John Ford |
| Runtime: | 105 Minutes |
| Editor: | Anne V. Coates |
| Genre: | Biography |