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Fifty Dead Men Walking is a 2008 English-language crime thriller film written and directed by Kari Skogland. It is a loose adaptation of Martin McGartland 's 1997 autobiography of the same name. It premiered in September 2008, and stars Jim Sturgess as McGartland, a British agent who went undercover into the Provisional Irish Republican Army ...
- £6,000,000
- Ben Mink
- Kari Skogland, Stephen Hegyes, Peter La Terriere, Shawn Williamson
Aug 21, 2009 · Fifty Dead Men Walking: Directed by Kari Skogland. With Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Kevin Zegers, Natalie Press. Martin McGartland joins the I.R.A. and feeds information to Britain's Special Branch Agent Fergus.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Kari Skogland
- 2009-08-21
Summaries. Martin McGartland joins the I.R.A. and feeds information to Britain's Special Branch Agent Fergus. Based on Martin McGartland's shocking real life story. Martin is a young lad from west Belfast in the late 1980s who is recruited by the British Police to spy on the IRA.
This movie is based on real events, and a book written by McGartland and Nicholas Davies. It presents the usual disclaimers that “some of the events, characters and scenes in the film have been changed.”
Though somewhat uneven in places, Fifty Dead Men Walking is a gripping portrayal of Ireland's violent history, carried by the strong performances of its lead actors. A young man infiltrates...
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- Kari Skogland
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- Ben Kingsley
Apr 11, 2009 · Written and directed by the Canadian filmmaker Kari Skogland, Fifty Dead Men Walking is a minor addition, loosely based on the autobiography of Martin McGartland (Jim Sturgess), a young...
Apr 9, 2009 · Thu 9 Apr 2009 19.01 EDT. P resumably, when this treatment of a tricky subject in recent Northern Irish history - what makes someone turn informer - was put into production, the Troubles were ...
