Apparently the Molly Maguires were four guys infiltrated by Richard Harris. I once read that they were a large organization of terrorist miners all over eastern Pennsylvania in 1876-77.
I don't know why Don Knotts was in thi8s film without a credit at the end. He played a Pinkerton detective and was surprisingly convincing for someone who usually plays a funnyman.
They took a lot of liberties with the story but what else is new? The priest stole the movie with his sanctimonious lectures to the Maguires at every funeral. Why did they take chowderhead off the IMDb? He was my hero.
Henry Mancini did the music and there's nothing like good music to dance to when people are dying in coal mining accidents.
The Molly Maguires was an amazing mood piece for life in the coal mines in the 19th century but it did not do justice to the injustices that motivated the Molly Maguires to acts of protest. The Mollys were wrong but they were wronged to begin with and the movie does not show the grievances of the workers in any mature way.
I liked the part when they tried to kill Harris with a pile of coal.
I don't know why Don Knotts was in thi8s film without a credit at the end. He played a Pinkerton detective and was surprisingly convincing for someone who usually plays a funnyman.
They took a lot of liberties with the story but what else is new? The priest stole the movie with his sanctimonious lectures to the Maguires at every funeral. Why did they take chowderhead off the IMDb? He was my hero.
Henry Mancini did the music and there's nothing like good music to dance to when people are dying in coal mining accidents.
The Molly Maguires was an amazing mood piece for life in the coal mines in the 19th century but it did not do justice to the injustices that motivated the Molly Maguires to acts of protest. The Mollys were wrong but they were wronged to begin with and the movie does not show the grievances of the workers in any mature way.
I liked the part when they tried to kill Harris with a pile of coal.
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