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Home Is the Hero

0 %|Mar 3, 1959|Drama

This well-acted drama about an Irishman just released from jail is filled with rich characterization. The story is adapted from a stage play by Walter Macken who also plays the role of the ex-convict Paddo in this screen version. Direction is by J. Fielder Cook. Once Paddo returns home after being sentenced to five years for killing a man, his old friends try to put him back in their niche of local hero but Paddo will have none of it. He is disillusioned and changed. His son Willie (Arthur Kennedy) walks with a limp that keeps him too self-conscious to assert himself as he would like with the young woman of his dreams. While other people come in and out of Paddo's life, from his taciturn friend the trapper to the local tinker, it is Paddo's son Willie suffering from his own disability who makes the difference in his father's life.

Featured Crew

Emmett Dalton
Executive Producer
Fielder Cook
Director
Walter Macken
Theatre Play
Philip Howard
Writer
Henry Keating
Writer

Cast

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Walter Macken
Paddo O'Reilly
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Eileen Crowe
Daylia O'Reilly
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Arthur Kennedy
Willie O'Reilly
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Joan O'Hara
Josie O'Reilly