Movie review - "The Quare Fellow" (1962) **

  Not that well known Irish-British film despite being based on a Brendan Behan play and with two stars, Patrick McGoohan and Sylvia Syms. McGoodhan is a prison guard on death row.

It was made by Bryanston the short lived company that made a lot of worthy movies. They kept the budget low. A good idea but ultimately didn't work.

I understand this was changed from the stage play. I wasn't quite sure of the point of this was. I think the play was focused on the prisoners - the prisoners barely register here.

McGoohan is a warden on death row. He sort of flirts with Sylvia Syms who is the wife of a condemned prisoner. That's a bit contrived. Syms is quite good. So is McGoohan. Actually all the acting is good. Location work helps a lot. (It was shot in Dublin.)