Young Cassidy

Year: 1965

Runtime: 110 mins

Language: English

Director: Jack Cardiff

Drama

A fierce, larger‑than‑life John Cassidy (Rod Taylor) in 1911 Dublin battles poverty and family duties while joining the trammen’s strike, consorting with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie) and dreaming of a better future. He falls for bookshop clerk Nora (Maggie Smith), who pushes him toward writing. Success at the Abbey Theatre isolates him from loved ones as his radical views clash with his past.

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