Juno and the Paycock (film)

Juno and the Paycock is a 1930 film written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Barry Fitzgerald, Maire ONeill, Edward Chapman and Sara Allgood.

Barry Fitzgerald, who played Captain Jack Boyle in the original stage production, appears as an orator in the first scene, but has no other role. In the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, Captain Boyle Edward Chapman lives in a tworoom tenement flat with his wife Juno Sara Allgood and their two young children Mary Kathleen ORegan and Johnny John Laurie. Juno has dubbed her husband the Paycock because she thinks him as useful and vain as a peacock. Juno works while the Captain loafs around the flat when not drinking up the familys meager finances at the neighbourhood pub.Daughter Mary has a job but is on strike against the victimisation of a coworker. Son Johnny has become a semi invalid after losing an arm and severely injuring his hip in a fight with the Black and Tans during the Irish War of Independence. Although Johnny has taken the AntiTreaty side during the continuing Irish Civil War, he has recently turned in a fellow Irish Republican Army IRA member to the Irish Free State police who subsequently kill him. The Paycock tells his friend Joxer Sidney Morgan of his disgust at the informer, unaware that his son was responsible. The IRA suspect Johnny and order him to report to them for questioning he refuses, protesting that his wounds show he has done his bit for Ireland. ........

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