The Quare Fellow

Thomas Crimmins starts work in a prison. The place is Ireland and the job is that of a warder. The young man takes his work seriously. He believes the guilty should get what they deserve. His superior Regan sees it differently. Regan has been in this work for years. He knows that prisoners are people too. He is against the death penalty. In time Crimmins begins to look at things differently. Around then he meets Kathleen. The woman is the wife of a man awaiting execution. Something forms between the two of them. Then new information about the case comes out. The film was adapted from a play. Patrick McGoohan and Sylvia Syms take the leads in Arthur Dreifuss’s British film of 1962.