Hungry Hill

Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.

Cast

Margaret Lockwood

as Fanny Rosa

Dennis Price

as Greyhound John

Cecil Parker

as Copper John

Dermot Walsh

as Wild Johnnie Brodrick

Michael Denison

as Henry Brodrick

F.J. McCormick

as Old Tim

Arthur Sinclair

as Morty Donovan

Jean Simmons

as Jane Brodrick

Eileen Crowe

as Bridget

Eileen Herlie

as Katherine

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Cecil Parker offers us the thread to guide us through this adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel about the dynastic aspirations of the "Brodrick" family, and of their trials and tribulations over a long period of history spent feuding with the local "Donovan" clan. It all starts when an altercatio...

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