A Prayer For The Dying (1987)

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Written by Jack Higgins, Edmund Ward

Directed by Mike Hodges

Running Time: 100 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1987

Rating: 15 Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Colour

Martin Fallon is an IRA bomber, who tries to blow up a troop truck but instead kills a busload of school children. He loses heart and quits the movement and goes to London trying to leave the UK and start a new life. The IRA wants him back (he knows too much) and the local crime boss, Meehan, will only help him if he performs one last hit, on a rival crime boss. When Fallon does perform the hit, he is seen by a Catholic priest. He refuses to kill an innocent again and must find a way to escape the police without killing the priest, who can identify him.

Cast

Image for Mickey RourkeMickey RourkeMartin Fallon
Image for Bob HoskinsBob HoskinsFather Michael Da Costa
Image for Alan BatesAlan BatesJack Meehan
Sammi DavisAnna
Christopher FulfordBilly Meehan
Image for Liam NeesonLiam NeesonLiam Docherty
Leonard TermoBonati
Image for Camille CoduriCamille CoduriJenny Fox
Maurice O'ConnellSuperintendant Miller
Alison DoodySiobhan Donovan
Karl JohnsonFitzgerald
Ian BartholomewKristou
Peggy AitchisonMrs. Orton
Cliff BurnettFred Varley
Image for Anthony HeadAnthony HeadRupert

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