The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.

John Mills
as Terence Sullivan

Dirk Bogarde
as Matt Sullivan

Robert Beatty
as Shinto

Elizabeth Sellars
as Maureen Fagan

Barbara Mullen
as Molly Fagan

Eddie Byrne
as Flynn

Joseph Tomelty
as Dr Brannigan

Gilbert Harding
as Henry Truethome

James Kenney
as Johnny Fagan

Liam Redmond
as Connolly
John Chard
Ealing take on the Irish Troubles. Directed by Basil Dearden and adapted to screenplay from his own play by Roger MacDougal, The Gentle Gunman finds John Mills and Dirk Bogarde as brothers in the IRA circa 1941. Matt (Bogarde) is the young and hungry in the name of the cause brother, Terence (Mi...