Playboys, The
Date: 1992
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Production Company: Green Umbrella Ltd., The Samuel Goldwyn Company
Stars: Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright, Milo O'Shea
Location(s): County Cavan, County Kildare
Region(s): Ireland
Storyline:
In 1950s Ireland, a young woman outrages the residents of her provincial village when she gives birth out of wedlock and refuses to name the father.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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On wash day, Mrs. Smith (Áine Ní Mhuirí) arrives at the village pump in Butlershill. Almost the entire film is shot at Redhills in County Cavan, seen here with the L1503 road crossing the background.
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The village bell calls the faithful to Mass. The bell-tower of the Church of the Immaculate Conception on Chapel Street in Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare which also appears in 'Shake Hands with the Devil'.
No sunny sky on the occasion of Pat's visit.
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About to give birth to a baby out of wedlock, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) is helped from the church by her sister Brigid (Niamh Cusack). A suitably dressed building in Redhills serves as Maguire's shop.
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Following the birth of Jimmy, both Garda Síochána officer Sergeant Hegarty and Mick, a landowner with 30 acres ask for Tara's hand in marriage but she declines each offer.
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Sergeant Brendan Hegarty (Albert Finney) checks the rainfall gauge outside the Garda station. Redhills in County Cavan.
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Across the green, the Sergeant looks at the Maguire's shop. The view across the green at Redhills.
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Mick (Adrian Dunbar) oversees the dragging of drowned cows from his flooded pastures.
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After Mick commits suicide, Tara and the Sergeant stand with Villagers as Father Malone (Alan Devlin) says a prayer over the body.
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Tara watches Sergeant Hegarty carry Mick's corpse towards the house.
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Following a Mass during which Father Malone explains that scandal is a contagion which can infect an entire community, Tara and Brigid walk out of church when the name of Jimmy's (Peter and James Morris) father is demanded. The green in Redhills.
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As Brigid puts up a poster in the shop window advertising 'The Playboys', Ireland's premier theatre company, Sean (Kilian McKenna) and his Wife ask performer Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn) what you get if you win the raffle.
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Children chase Tom Casey as he rides away on his motorcycle combination after spotting Tara looking out from her bedroom window. Facing Main Street in Redhills.
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The troupe of travelling Actors arrive to set up their tent on the green. The green in Redhills, County Cavan.
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Whilst driving her van, Tara sees an customs roadblock ahead.
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Swinging off the main road, Tara heads along a lesser used lane and crosses the border.
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Tara takes the Fordson van along a track . . .
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. . . to where Ritchie is parked beneath a bridge.
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Tom Casey climbs a pole to connect the tent to the public electricity supply and the troupe's tent is illuminated. The green in Redhills.
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As she walks back from delivering a new suit to Father Malone, Tom Casey catches up with Tara.
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While the other members of the troupe are in the fields helping the Villagers to make hayricks, Tom Clancy calls on Tara at the shop. Redhills, County Cavan.
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After Jimmy's father is revealed, Tom Clancy takes the unmarried mother out on his motorcycle combination.
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The camera pans with the pair as they leave Butlershill. The bridge over the route of the former Cavan to Clones railway line to the north of Redhills.
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Tom Clancy drives Tara through the countryside.
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After Tom tells Tara that tonight is the show's last evening before they move on to Tullyvin and Dublin, the two take to a rowing boat. Looking across Lough Oughter towards Cloughoughter Castle in County Cavan.
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When the boat capsizes throwing the pair into the water, the two find an isolated barn in which they remove their wet clothes.
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Freddie Fitzgerald (Milo O'Shea), the troupe's leader, takes of his hat as Father Malone passes during a procession of the Blessed Sacrament.
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To get ideas for further productions, the troupe leave a cinema after watching 'Gone with the Wind'. The Erne Palais at the corner of Holborn Hill and Barrack Lane in Belturbet, County Cavan. The former cinema closed in 1963 and the building later became a dance hall and a community centre but was destroyed by fire in September 2018.