The Quare Fellow, based on the play by Ireland's Brendan Behan, is a funny tragedy, a happy-go-lucky horror show, a gay little wake for the dead who have died in the name of justicethe kind of justice that demands a life for a life. Like the play, the picture ignores the rational arguments against capital punishment. It simply takes its audience inside an Irish prison and bolts the gate; and then with a world of Irish charm and humor shows everybody round the dear old place, shows everybody how it feels to live in a celland die on a rope.
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