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Hitchcock, BIP, 1930, from Sean O'Casey's Abbey play. The Boyle family in a Dublin tenement during the Civil War: a false inheritance, a daughter's trouble, the IRA at the door. Sara Allgood is Juno, a role she had played on stage. Hitchcock later said the reverence for the text boxed him in. He shoots it mostly as rooms and faces. The camera comments when it can. The play does the rest.
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A filmed play, and he knew it. O'Casey's Dublin tenement, a false inheritance, the IRA at the door, Sara Allgood repeating her stage part. The camera comments when it can. Watch the room during the news. Reverence for the text is the lesson he did not want.
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