The Rising of the Moon

Year: 1957

Runtime: 81 mins

Language: English

Director: John Ford

Comedy

Filmed in the Emerald Isle, the film links three short‑story vignettes of rural Irish life. In “The Majesty of the Law,” a police officer arrests an old‑fashioned man, yet the village sides with him. “One Minute’s Wait” sketches comic moments at a tiny train station as passengers come and go. “1921” follows a nationalist’s daring escape.

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