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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0054961881390
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: ACORN MEDIA
Manufacturer: ACORN MEDIA
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: ACORN MEDIA
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 21, 2006
Running Time: 205 minutes
Sales Rank: 36807
Studio: ACORN MEDIA
Theatrical Release Date: 1995
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Product Description:
Donegal 1846. The four upstanding sons of the Phelan family two farmers, a schoolteacher, and a priest are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt when the injustices of the landholding system and the onset of the potato blight combine to devastate their community. Though his predecessor was murdered, the new land manager, Captain Townsend (Michael Kitchen), upholds the law while appealing to the absentee landowner for reasonable accommodation for the suffering tenants. Three of the Phelan sons try to work with Captain Townsend, but one takes the law into his own hands, setting off a chain of events that tests the brothers love for their country and each other.
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE production notes, photo gallery, and cast filmographies.
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Rating: - The Hanging Gale: a tale of four brothers
The Brothers McGann star in this exciting, yet deep film about the four Phelan brothers during the time of the Potato Famine. Though they all lead very different lives, there is the heart and blood ties that keep these four brothers united in one way or another. Michael Kitchen as the new Land Manager is a great asset to this film. If you liked him in Foyle's War, you'll love him in The Hanging Gale!
Rating: - DARK
Until viewing this superb albeit very dark and bloody BBC presentation of "Hanging Gale", I had NO idea of the plight of the Irish in the mid-1800s. This presentation dwells primarily on the struggles of the Phelan family and mainly about the four brothers as played wonderfully by real life brothers, Paul, Stephen, Joe and Mark McGann--who are very rugged and very handsome; with one brother being a rather emtionally torn priest and all of them prone to violence and not above committing murder. ... Read More
Rating: - An Absolutely First-Rate Historical Drama!
Set in County Donegal, Ireland, just prior to and during the Irish Potato Famine in the mid 1800s, The Hanging Gale is a powerful and emotionally charged, not to mention insightful and informative, account of one family's struggle to survive the devastation--a situation made only worse by the cruel and unbending governance by the British.
The series stars the four McGann brothers as the four Phelan brothers. Brother Liam (Paul McGann--Withnail and I, Horatio Hornblower, Fish) is a Catholic ... Read More
Rating:  - Don't knock BBC Northern Ireland!
"The Hanging Gale" is everything one might expect from a BBC production; excellent performances, superb production values and a wonderful Donegal location.
It needs to be pointed out that the previous poster's scepticism re:- what might be expected from BBC Northern Ireland in terms of accuracy and fairness WOULD HAVE been perfectly justified until a few years ago. While I was growing up in Belfast the SECOND most corrupt public organisation (the Stormont Unionist government being the FIRST) ... Read More
Rating: - Very Fair Movie
This movie is about four brothers in Ireland at the time of the potato famine (mid 1800's). The brothers are played by four real life brothers including Paul McGann (Our Mutual Friend(1999), Hornblower). It also features Michael Kitchen, familiar to Masterpiece Theater fans as DCS Foyle in Foyle's War. The four brothers each have a different profession and different personalities. One is fiery and wishes to kill as many English as possible. It is an extremely fair production, showing what really happened. When ... Read More
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