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This is as marvelous a movie about coal mining as you find until Matewan comes along. Connery, Harris and Eggar are excellent; Ritt’s direction is astounding. I am the descendent of Irish immigrant miners who worked the same fields as the film portrays, and I do not detect a unfounded notice in the portrayal of “patch” life, even after numerous viewings. BTW, the “patch” portrayed in this film is an loyal town in Pennsylvania — Eckley, about 10 miles outside of Hazelton — and has been restored by the Space Museum Commission as a bit of living history.
That being said, a few additional comments:
1. “It’s dusky and dim…” — DUH! IT’S ABOUT LIFE IN A COAL MINE!
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2. Walter Bernstein’s script did not have the assist of Kevin Kenny’s “Making Sense of the Molly Maguires” (1997) . If he had, his script would have been very different, because the Mollies were, to a expansive degree, a fiction devised by Franklin Gowan to clarify the virtual slavery of Irish immigrants in his coalfields. Yes, many Irish miners were hung for slay. No, these murders were never proven. These men were labor martyrs.
3. The record of Molly violence led to the hiring of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, which made its money in the 19th century by infiltrating labor organizations and framing their members (who had the temerity to suggest things like a living wage) on any number of trumped up charges to the authorities. McKenna was a particularly loathsome example of the sort of human dregs they hired.
In short, this is a lost American film classic, as reliable in its contrivance as John Ford’s “Grapes of Wrath”. It has the power to comfort the afflicted, and injure the comfortable — and what better can be said of a work of art?
James Wong Howe’s cinematography looks blooming on the restored DVD version of this underrated film, an unearthly intervention which brings us the steady physicality of the 19th century in light and radiance. It was an era in which electric light was objective being invented and candles and gaslight were serene the norm, that is, among people with the money to afford them. The unwashed faces of the coal miners and the families they supported do a canvas from Brueghel, but even the whole weight of the mining companies cannot kill the inner spark in their eyes.
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Filmed by the Left-leaning director Martin Ritt, freed up from the blacklist that crippled the earlier fragment of his career, THE MOLLY MAGUIRES finds Ritt at a tantalizing dwelling, picking at the unpleasant scab of US history that the unsuitable MOLLY MAGUIRES represents. Indeed historians argue whether or not there was ever a conspiracy among Fenians to bring down the oligarchy of the oppressive coal mining companies through so-called “shillelagh law.” Ritt was able to attract not only Richard Harris but top-billed Sean Connery to this project; for each of them a commercial risk. Indeed the movie, re-edited at the studio by nervous bosses, probably doesn’t record the script that Connery and Harris read. Samantha Eggar, one of the loveliest of 60s cover actresses, took the leading women’s role which was turned down by Anjanette (LOVED ONE) Comer. Oddly enough, thirty years later, Comer took the minor fragment of “Sue” in TV’s recreation of the nine miners in Pennsylvania who were rescued from the Quecreek cave-in in the summer of 2002.
Yes, the film is depressing. Yes, it is slow-moving, sparked by moments of intense brutality. But give it a chance and enjoy its current blend of 1870s locations and 1970 radical filmmaking.
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