Good radio documentary on the RTÉ website for Irish director Hurst. Interesting life: born beside the Belfast shipyards, family was working there when the Titanic got built, directed about 30 features (including the best version of
Scrooge and several Irish titles in the '30s), gave Roger Moore his first break, and died penniless in the 1980s. Interestingly, he tried to set up an Irish film industry here back in the 1950s. This was a decade before John Huston tried the same. Not sure if he was Ireland's most prolific director, Herbert Brenon maybe?
Another famous movie with an Irish theme. Set in Africa a TCD graduate heads off alone to find a diamond mine. His daughter gets an explore...
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