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The Quare Fellow (1962) on Netflix

NR19621h 25mCrimeDrama

Thomas Crimmins is a young, idealistic new warder at an Irish prison. His superior Regan has lost patience with the hangings. Crimmins grows close to Kathleen, wife of a condemned man.

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Thomas Crimmins takes up his post as a warder in an Irish prison, convinced that the work serves his country and that the law deals plainly with wrongdoers. Regan, his superior, has come to see the prisoners as men rather than cases, and he has no stomach for the state's executions of condemned inmates, the men the prison calls quare fellows. As the job goes on, the new warder's certainty begins to give way. Kathleen is the wife of one of the men under sentence of death, and Crimmins's dealings with her pull him away from the simple picture of justice he arrived with, leaving him caught between the duty he accepted and the claims of the people it is used upon.

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