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- Fascinating true story about the secret Irish society that took revenge on the Pennsylvania mine owners for the starvation-type conditions resulting from not being paid a living wage. An undercover Pinkerton agent ended their 30 year campaign for which several were executed.
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Partly inspired by a true story, the film portrays the rebellious leader of the Molly Maguires and his will to achieve social justice. The film score for The Molly Maguires was by Henry Mancini, a late entry in the production replacing a score by Charles Strouse.
Jul 2, 2018 · It is impossible to know how truthful the evidence against the Molly Maguires was, given that the coal company hired McParlan and informants like Kerrigan, who corroborated his testimony, took the stand to save their own lives, Kevin Kenny wrote in “Making Sense of the Molly Maguires” in 1988.
Jun 30, 2018 · Co-star Sean Connery, already famous for playing a secret agent in the James Bond movies, took the role of Kehoe and offered his own lament for the Molly Maguires.
Partly inspired by a true story, the film portrays the rebellious leader of the Molly Maguires and his will to achieve social justice. The film score for The Molly Maguires was by Henry Mancini, a late entry in the production replacing a score by Charles Strouse. Plot
The Molly Maguires was an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool, and parts of the eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania.
Lament for the Molly Maguires tells the true story of the violence wrought by a secret society of Pennsylvania Irish coal miners and how they were eventually brought to justice by an undercover detective of the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
