# St. Patrick's Day playlist- the movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 15, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-patricks-day-playlist-the-movies/489487 "2009-03-15T03:00:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-patricks-day-playlist-the-movies/489487/21 "2009-03-17T13:34:03Z")
_The Informer._ ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-patricks-day-playlist-the-movies/489487/22 "2009-03-17T13:38:07Z")
I’m surprised TCM isn’t showing a string of old black and white grade B Irish-themed comedies today. Featuring the usual suspects - comical old character actors with Irish accents a mile wide. “Little Nellie Kelly” with Judy Garland, about Irish immigrants and the men all Cops Walking A Beat in NYC - you could have quite a drinking game watching that thing, taking a swig of Guiness every time you heard the word 'Pop" (when talking to dad/grand-dad). I am glad “The Quiet Man” is on, though I’ve seen it a billion times. It’s just so beautiful to look at. Wouldn’t be St. Patrick’s Day without it. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-patricks-day-playlist-the-movies/489487/23 "2009-03-17T16:35:02Z")
One more: _[The Dead](http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE7D81031F934A25751C1A961948260)_, adapted from the Joyce short story. > [@](#): > > ‘‘ONE by one we’re all becoming shades,’’ says Gabriel Conroy, looking out into Dublin’s bleak winter dawn. Gretta, the wife he loves and suddenly realizes he has never known, lies asleep on the bed nearby. His own life now seems paltry: ‘‘Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.’’ > > These words are spoken toward the end of ‘‘The Dead,’’ John Huston’s magnificent adaptation of the James Joyce story that was to be the director’s last film. > > Some men pass boldly into that other world at 17. Huston was 81 when he died last August. He failed physically, but his talent was not only unimpaired, it was also richer, more secure and bolder than it had ever been. No other American film maker has ended a comparably long career on such a note of triumph. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-patricks-day-playlist-the-movies/489487/24 "2009-03-17T16:41:07Z")
Another Irish in America … _Boondock Saints_ Even if their father is played by Scotsman Billy Connolly. ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-patricks-day-playlist-the-movies/489487/25 "2009-03-17T17:24:53Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > One more: _[The Dead](http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE7D81031F934A25751C1A961948260)_, adapted from the Joyce short story. I agree on ‘The Dead’ and have used it as a teaching aid when I did a course on _Dubliners_. Edit: I am overjoyed to find it has been recently released on DVD, contrary to my original post. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-patricks-day-playlist-the-movies/489487/26 "2009-03-17T20:04:16Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I’m surprised TCM isn’t showing a string of old black and white grade B Irish-themed comedies today. Featuring the usual suspects - comical old character actors with Irish accents a mile wide. “Little Nellie Kelly” with Judy Garland, about Irish immigrants and the men all Cops Walking A Beat in NYC - you could have quite a drinking game watching that thing, taking a swig of Guiness every time you heard the word 'Pop" (when talking to dad/grand-dad). > > I am glad “The Quiet Man” is on, though I’ve seen it a billion times. It’s just so beautiful to look at. Wouldn’t be St. Patrick’s Day without it. I was really annoyed there wasn’t any of this fodder airing here either. The schedules are generally bereft of Irishy stuff except the latest Simpson’s episode. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-patricks-day-playlist-the-movies/489487/27 "2009-03-17T20:41:00Z")
I studiously avoid all this shite around the 17th! I am Irish all year 'round, thankyouverymuch, and I am surrounded by people who are “Irish today” and who will be Mexican in a couple of months… 😉 Frigging amateur night for drinkers, too. Listen, loser- if you’re not already in the habit of drinking all day, it’s a **really** bad idea to start now. It usually ends badly. Leave this kind of drinking to the professionals. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-patricks-day-playlist-the-movies/489487/28 "2009-03-17T21:57:36Z")
Irish Americans: The Last Hurrah (1958), Spencer Tracy The Long Gray Line (1955), Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hara Beau James (1957), Bob Hope Top o’ the Morning (1949), Bing Crosby, Ann Blyth, Barry Fitzgerald Shamrock Hill (1949), Peggy Ryan The Luck of the Irish (1948), Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter Abie’s Irish Rose (1946), Joanne Dru The Valley of Decision (1945), Greer Garson, Gregory Peck Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944), Monty Woolley, June Haver, Dick Haymes Leave It to the Irish (1944), James Dunn The Merry Monahans (1944), Donald O’Connor, Peggy Ryan, Jack Oakie Going My Way (1944), Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald Gentleman Jim (1942), Errol Flynn The Strawberry Blonde (1941), James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-patricks-day-playlist-the-movies/489487/29 "2009-03-17T22:01:44Z")
Fox Movie Channel has today what TCM doesn’t: The Black Swan (1942), Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hara The Luck of the Irish Irish Eyes Are Smiling The Fox Legacy: The Brothers McMullen ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-patricks-day-playlist-the-movies/489487/30 "2009-03-18T01:26:02Z")
The only Irishy movie I saw was Gangs of New York, last night. Had that been edited right it could have been a really good auld film. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-patricks-day-playlist-the-movies/489487/31 "2009-03-18T13:46:55Z")
[My Left Foot](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097937/#comment) is a good movie, although I don’t think Christy Brown is someone I’d want to hang out with. [Agnes Browne](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160509/), with Anjelica Huston is very good, too. StG ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-patricks-day-playlist-the-movies/489487/32 "2009-03-19T02:16:33Z")
I watched The Quiet Man - I do every March 17th (my own personal tradition) - though I still haven’t figured out what they are burning in the meadow when “you’re in-laws have come for a visit, Squire darlin’.” And I think I’m going to add The Commitments next year … howlingly funny dialogue. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-patricks-day-playlist-the-movies/489487/33 "2009-03-19T02:23:39Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > **The Secret of Roan Inish** , written & directed by John Sayles, is chock full of Irish characters, legend & beautiful scenery. I wanted to say this one! One of the little characteristics I loved about it is that everybody in the village is a storyteller. It’s like, telling a tale is a rite of passage in this community. I liked how, when the young boy was telling his portion of the tale to the little girl, he had this very satisfied expression on his face: I’m telling a tale, and I’m telling it well. I truly belong, now. Or he could have just been a poor actor, who couldn’t stop smirking when he knew the camera was on him. But I like my interpretation better. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-patricks-day-playlist-the-movies/489487.md?page=1)