Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, the movie tells the story of a teacher's (Robert Mitchum) wife (Sarah Miles) who has an affair with a troubled British soldier (Christopher Jones).
29 March 1938, Birmingham, England, UK
21 August 1927, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
18 August 1941, Jackson, Tennessee, USA
22 February 1908, The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK
1917, Ireland
6 August 1917, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
24 June 1944, Watlington, Oxfordshire, England, UK
21 November 1929, County Cork, Irish Free State [now County Cork, Ireland]
16 March 1920, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
May 18, 1927 in Dublin, Ireland
5 December 1945, Bangor, Northern Ireland, UK
1936, London, England, UK
1912, Ireland
27 June 1918, Rush, County Dublin, Ireland
4 June 1925, Liverpool, England, UK
29 September 1913, Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK
31 December 1941, Ingatestone, Essex, England, UK
8 February 1946, Dublin, Ireland, UK
March 22, 2008
Arguably David Lean's weakest film, this lushly photographed (it won Oscar for Freddie Young) period Irish romance is rambling and pointless, and feels like an occasion for Sarah Miles (then married to writer Bolt) to show off her beautiful body.
March 08, 2006
Those who were jealous of [Lean's] previous successes decried the film as an utter failure, though of course it is not, it just isn't quite as good as his other movies.
May 09, 2005
It doesn't transfigure the world. It embalms it.
November 06, 2007
Overlength of perhaps 30 minutes serves to magnify some weaknesses of Robert Bolt's original screenplay, to dissipate the impact of the performances, and to overwhelm outstanding photography and production.
October 23, 2004
A disappointing failure of tone, a lush and overblown self-indulgence in which David Lean has given us a great deal less than meets the eye.
February 15, 2006
If you are looking for a breath of fresh Eire, you are in the wrong movie.
January 30, 2006
Ryan's Daughter takes far too long to say much too little.
February 22, 2006
Some hippie-dippiness dates the picture, but the vérité posturing of Lean's peers looks a lot kitschier in retrospect
November 06, 2007
The best thing about this much-vaunted, overlong Irish epic love triangle is its gorgeous photography.
May 24, 2003
Lean's depiction of provincial Ireland during the unrest of 1916 may suffer a little from its rather worthy romanticism, but this does not dilute its powerful, epic vision.
June 24, 2006
An awe-inspiringly tedious lump of soggy romanticism.
January 01, 2000
It's insanely overproduced in Lean's standard epic style, yet somehow the crazy mismatches in scale contribute to the film's sense of romantic delirium.
