Encyclopedia > Ryan's Daughter

  Article Content

Ryan's Daughter

Ryan's Daughter is a 1970 film which tells the story of an Irish girl who has an affair with an English soldier during World War I, despite opposition from her nationalist neighbors. It stars Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones[?], John Mills, Leo McKern and Sarah Miles.

The movie was written by Robert Bolt and directed by David Lean.

It won Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (John Mills) and Best Cinematography. It was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Sarah Miles) and Best Sound.

John Mills played a mute in the film. For his Oscar acceptance speech, he bowed without saying a word.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
East Farmingdale, New York

... age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 34.6% from 25 to 44, 19.4% from 45 to 64, and 10.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 34 years. For every 100 females ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 28.3 ms