The Outsider (1979)

5.8/10 128 min Drama History

Overview

Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he's the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.

Cast

Craig Wasson

Michael Flaherty

Sterling Hayden

Seamus Flaherty

Patricia Quinn

Siobhan

T. P. McKenna

John Russell

Niall Tóibín

The Farmer

Frank Grimes

Tony Coyle

Bosco Hogan

Finbar Donovan

Ray McAnally

MacWhirter

J.G. Devlin

Sean Tweeny

Joe Lynch

Sean Thompson

David Collings

Maj. Nigel Percival

Allan Cuthbertson

Stanley

Geoffrey Palmer

Col. Wyndham

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