The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964)
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Plot: An out-of-work Irish immigrant in Montreal remains hopeful that his luck is about to change but his disillusioned family grow tired of his pigheadedness and instability. Great footage of Montreal in this era.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Stars: Robert Shaw, Mary Ure and Liam Redmond
God Bless a Great Actor and a genius of a Gentleman, there are none like you Sir.
God Bless, Rest in Peace.
I’m thrilled to find this movie again. Saw it years ago when I was going through my own employment trials. The screenplay and performances perfectly capture the struggle for dignity and self respect. And I can relate to the cold northern winter!
A timeless story, about the trials and tribulations of a new Canadian and his family, sensitively and sensibly told.
Robert Shaw and Mary Ure are first-rate as the title character and his wife. The supporting roles are well written and well acted, too.
A priceless time capsule of Montreal in 1964, the on-location shooting captures the "ugly beauty" of a Montreal winter, one which I've luckily never experienced !!!
Directed by a young Irvin Kershner, who would go on to direct the most critically acclaimed Star Wars episode, "The Empire Strikes Back".
It also illustrates this cardinal rule: Don't turn down a job offer because you are expecting a better one !!!
Excellent film, superbly acted and well made.
Great movie, loved it. Robert Shaw was one great actor. Thanks for the up!
I was up till 4AM this morning reading the book and was thrilled to see you uploaded the movie. Very well done. Shaw and Ure are great. Brian Moore's screenplay was slightly tamer and more open ended than his novel. Such pity his work is mostly out of print. Thanks. I loved the movie and '60s Montreal.
Thank goodness. I like the Expo 67 bus ad.
Love this film so much ❤️ big fan of Robert Shaw and his work. Mary Ure is fantastic too. I wish the original soundtrack would be available on cd.
Robert Shaw said this was his favourite role. He wasnt Irish. He was a Lancashire lad who grew up partly in Scotland and Cornwall and Mary Ure was a Scot. Shaw lived for years in Ireland hence the confusion.
Happy to see my dad's work available again. Thank you.
Who was your dad?
@@stevewheeler8305 Brian Moore
@@healthid Based on his wiki page he sounds like an interesting fellow. Always loved the Ginger Coffey story.
Loved your dads books as well.
@@krishnamurtiismthank you
Love this film so much 😍 Robert Shaw was one of a kind
Shaw and Ure's performances are just great...a sadly overlooked movie. As a Montrealer I thought the location shots were well done...Directed by the same guy who directed the second film in the star wars saga, the empire strikes back.
I did not know that, interesting.
Thank you, thank you, I've been waiting years to see this again. Only saw this years ago on CBC.
Better late than never for this fine film, Thank you.
I'm so so happy to see this! Thanks so much!
Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. Thanks for the upload!
Thanks for uploading this great movie!
Absolutely a brilliant film and acting
Wow, this is a lot different than the novel. We used it as subject in a U of Windsor English.
Watching this now on TUBI. Good one.
12:07 1 PVM 12-13th floor - Montreal Trust (later used by RBC and empty as of May 2013)
37:10 City bus (notice the Expo 67 ad?)
1:33:00 Court House
1:36 Place Jacques Cartier
This is a great piece of Canadiana. Tx for the upload. So, so different from how Montreal is now. Did anyone notice the standard portrait of the Queen hanging on the wall in the workplace? Not now, me thinks.
+Lyn Best Too Bad. I'm an American, and I like the Traditions and I like Queen Elizabeth, too. The last of the real ladies. The rest of the family is sadly a disgrace-
It does show that Montreal was a much more bilingual city than it is now...thanks to the PQ and their meddling.
Enjoyed it. Cheers.
Grew up in Montreal, so lots of memories, then moved to Chelsea QC, just down the road from Crawley Films. I recommend the book "Getting Started" by William Weintraub (passed away Nov 6, 2017) for a great snapshot of Richler, Gallant, Moore and him getting started as writers.
I will try to find this.
I've had my taste of unemployment over four decades of industrial work, and I agonized for Coffey when I saw this for the
first time thirty years ago. This viewing was just as depressing, hooray for Shaw, & Ure, the best.
Nice to see this movie after so many years. Shows what a hard assed country Canada was back in the day. Interesting to see a few Canadian actors who's names I don't know but faces I do. I think I spotted Chuck Shamata as an extra sitting in court..
Mary Ure dies in 1975, Robert Shaw dies in 1978. bless them both
Hey, Ginger, there's an opening for shark catcher in Amity!
Robert Shaw was an Englishman by birth, but his best known roles were playing Irish characters, like Coffey and Quint, so many
people think he was an Irishman. He did, however, move to Ireland and live there in his later years.
Bad taste. MacIntyre.
P'Shaw.
5:27 Drummond (The Montreal bus system never had route there.)
To Kimm Ghostkeeper
It being different than U of Windsor is a definite improvement.
It's really a nice movie.Filmed in a Beautiful City.
Mary Ure and Robert Shaw were both Irish, also.
Sadly, she passed away very young and so did Robert Shaw.
I wonder whatever happened to Libby McClintock, a local Canadian girl who played Paulie?
BTW the Reed Organization is an American Production Company; Crowley is Canadian, and the Majority of the Production was American. Irvin Kirshner was the director.
Where did you get that Ure and Shaw were Irish.? Ure was Scottish and Shaw was English..??
Paul Anthony Actually Shaw was English and I believer Ure was Scots.
Good movie, great performances, but I must admit, I had trouble hearing and understanding some of what was said.
This is our flat on Plessis!
Yes, and must read the novel. In fact, must get to read more of Mordecai's (sp) works. Have just finished a "binge" of reading "Best of" Alice Monroe. OMG -- where has she been all my life? Highly, highly recommended. Makes me proud to be Canadian -- an ex-pat from UK. I watched "Away From Her" movie when it first came out, then just recently read the short story (not so short) AKA "Bear Came Over the Mountain", Oh, so excellent, so now just itching to re-watch movie but can't find it on RUclips, and Pirate Bay is down, of course. Must say, WHEN Canadians do it, they do it well.
Thanks. subtitles, please
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