The Molly Maguires DVD – Art Lund, Brendan Dillon

Sean Connery stars as Jack Kehoe, leader of a militant workers group, in this account of the Irish-American coal miners’ struggle against the exploitative working practices of their bosses. Kehoe’s men – the Molly Maguires – are unafraid of using violence and intimidation to achieve their ends, and they pose enough threat to the bosses that the latter respond by sending undercover detective James McParlan (Richard Harris) to infiltrate their organisation. However, McParlan is a working class Irish immigrant himself and he soon begins to question where his true allegiances lie.

From acclaimed Oscar & BAFTA-nominated director Martin Ritt ‘The Molly MaGuires’ is a gritty compelling drama about a group of Irish immigrant miners who use sabotage and murder to fight the corruption of the Pennsylvanian mining company they work for. Starring Sean Connery as the leader of the immigrant band known as The Molly Maguires and Richard Harris as the man paid to infiltrate and bring down the gang the film depicts an era of brutal repression and the struggle to maintai