Hungry Hill

Date: 1947
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Production Company: Two Cities Films

Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price, Cecil Parker, Dermot Walsh, Michael Denison, F.J. McCormick, Jean Simmons
Location(s): County Meath, County Wicklow (Ireland)

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Storyline:

The story of a continuing feud that has raged between two families for over fifty years.

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Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson

 

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A carriage brings John Brodrick to Hungry Hill. The Irish Movie Madness website lists Glengarriff and Avoca in County Wicklow as locations.

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‘Copper’ John Brodrick (Cecil Parker) looks over the land on which he plans to sink a copper mine. Alan Bourke advises that the background is provided by the Sugarloaf and Gowlbeg mountains in Glengarriff, County Cork. Also to be seen in 'Wings of the Morning'.

Alan also provides this view that serves as a comparison of the landscape.

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Morty Donovan (Arthur Sinclair) approaches ‘Copper John’ and curses him when he learns of his plan. In reality, Hungry Hill is the highest peak of the Caha Mountains on the Beara peninsula in County Cork.

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John Brodrick returns home to fictional Clonmere in County Cork. The reality is a view of Killeen Castle in County Meath discovered by Steve Randall.