Ryan's Daughter

“A story of love...set against the violence of rebellion”

Nobody in the village will say why the wind on the Irish coast sounds so much like a warning, only that the schoolteacher Charles (Robert Mitchum) married a girl half his age and she has been restless ever since. David Lean sets it in 1917, in a village full of nationalist neighbours, where a wounded British officer, Major Doryan (Christopher Jones), arrives to take command. She watches him, and the whole village watches her, while Charles waits in the schoolroom.