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Ourselves Alone (film)

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259:(John Loder) are both in love with Maureen Elliot (Antionette Cellier), a sister of the IRA leader. The IRA leader is subsequently shot by Wiltshire. Hannay realises that Maureen is in love with Wiltshire and, as a final gesture, takes the blame for shooting her brother himself. Maureen then helps Captain Wiltshire escape an IRA trap. 31: 331:
One of the earliest reviews (on 10 May 1936) identifies this film as director, Brian Desmond Hurst's breakthrough film, under the banner headline Hitchcock... Capra.... Desmond-Hurst " on B.I.P's "little heard of" 'Ourselves Alone' it states "Remarkably little publicity concerning this production has
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reached the public, but among those concerned in the business (this time I won't say 'racket') whispers have gone round, like they often do, that it would be worth watching. That whisper should become a shout."
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takes Hurst's Battle of Arnhem epic as its centrepiece and then chronicles Hurst's life and experiences during the First World War and profiles each of his other nine films on conflict, including
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A reviewer in the Irish Times (17 August 1936) under the heading 'Film of the year' stated "If there was any betting on film results I would like to have a little flutter on Ourselves Alone".
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Hill, John (2000). "'Purely Sinn Fein Propaganda': The banning of Ourselves Alone (1936)".
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Official legacy website of the director with filmography including Ourselves Alone
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ambush of a police convoy carrying two captured members of the IRA.
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Inspector Hannay (John Lodge) and British Captain Wiltshire of the
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Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Act (Northern Ireland) 1922
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Rockett, Kevin; Gibbons, Luke; Hill, John (21 January 2014).
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The film was voted the seventh best British movie of 1936.
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Theirs is the Glory: Arnhem, Hurst and Conflict on Film
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depicting a love story set against the backdrop of the
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Films shot at British International Pictures Studios
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Brian Desmond Hurst
Marjorie Deans
Denis Johnston
Philip MacDonald
John Lodge
John Loder
British International Pictures
Alliance Films
drama film
Irish War of Independence
Irish
Sinn Féin Amháin
Brian Desmond Hurst
John Lodge
John Loder
Antoinette Cellier
Northern Ireland
Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Act (Northern Ireland) 1922
Irish Free State
Great Britain
IRA
Irish Police
Royal Intelligence Corps
John Lodge
John Loder
Antoinette Cellier
Niall MacGinnis
Clifford Evans
Jerry Verno

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