
Overview
Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from his job, he finds solace in the bottle. All seems hopeless until Jacqueline breaks through her father's self-imposed gloom and helps him to regenerate. An adaptation of the novel 'A Grand Man', by Catherine Cookson.
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Filming locations
Filmed in Pinewood Studios
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Setting
Set in Northern Ireland
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Music
Music by Cedric Thorpe Davie
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Patrick KirwanWriter
- Catherine CooksonNovel
- Liam O'FlahertyWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 4, 1956
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
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In the United States
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