Film

The Outsider

1979 · 2h 8m · Drama · History

IMDb

6.9

Metacritic

63

Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he's the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.

Craig Wasson

Michael Flaherty

Sterling Hayden

Seamus Flaherty

Patricia Quinn

Siobhan

Niall O'Brien

Emmett Donovan

T. P. McKenna

John Russell

Niall Tóibín

The Farmer

Frank Grimes

Tony Coyle

Elizabeth Begley

Mrs Cochran

Bosco Hogan

Finbar Donovan

Ray McAnally

MacWhirter

J.G. Devlin

Sean Tweeny

Joe Dowling

Pat

Aiden Grennell

Hanlan

Joe McPartland

Joe McDermott

Des Cave

Kevin McCann

Joe Lynch

Sean Thompson

• Tony LuraschiDirector · Writer
• Ricardo AronovichDirector of Photography
• Ken ThorneOriginal Music Composer
• Catherine KelberEditor

Release date

November 26, 1979

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 8m

Rated

R

Genres

Drama, History