The Molly Maguires (Suite)
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- Martin Ritt's powerful film based on actual events in 1870's Pennsylvania has two terrific central performances from Sean Connery and Richard Harris. The film details the exploits of a secret society of Irish - American coal miners who fight their exploitation by the ruthless mine owners by intimidation , violence and murder. Henry Mancini produces one of his best scores, which is represented here by a short suite.
One of Henry Mancini's all-time best scores. Should have been nominated for an Oscar®.
I was born and raised in the Coal Regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania. I am now 70, and when I listen to this theme it takes me back home even though I have been gone for over 45 years. Probably one of the most beautiful that Mancini ever did.
John Fronza I'm from Jessup myself love my Irish heritage and seeing the air vents around my area. These men were the backbone of this country
John Fronza my late father was from Pittston. I was last there in 2012 visited my great grandparents, grand uncle & grand aunts graves in St. John's Cemetary, drove past the house my father grew up in and visited St. Mary's Cemetary where my paternal grandfather is buried. There are no more O'Rourke's that I'm related to that live in Pittston, they are all dead and those that lived moved from there after the end of the Second World War. I'm going to be moving back to the Philippines where my heart is and live out my life there, my late wife was from the Philippines & my girl friend is there.
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I live about fifteen minutes from Mauch Chunk... Been there many times, been all over the coal region... to see a film about this area is heart wrenching. All the welsh and irish history is great to see. From Bangor PA to Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk).... Rolling Hills, history! Bethlehem Steel's birth using coal from where this film took place. This is a film about the building of a nation. Bravo! My grandfather used to drive steam engine up there....
My Grandfather worked in the anthracite mines of eastern Pennsylvania. As a child he led the Mules in and out of the mines. Worked his way up to mine foreman.
I so remember seeing the locomotive under thirty feet of water under the Jim Thorpe bridge. Truly historic.
I was still in the merchant navy British) and saw this film on board. Made in the same style of adventure and action as 50s and 60s westerns. This type of film is ageless. Mancini's music score - perfect.
combining Irish music w/ a full symphonic orchestra, GENIUS!!!!!!
This is one of Mancini's most brilliant scores! As a retired music teacher, I can tell you that his masterful blending of instrumentation to create such amazing, yet subtle textures is so simple, while evoking a complex range of emotions. That's the sign of a master composer. Absolutely incomparable! Thanks for sharing this beautiful music with us!
I was born and raised in Pittston. I was in high school - St John's - when the Molly Maguires was filmed in Eckley. Left Pittston in 1970 and used to go back to visit my parents. They have passed and are buried in St John's cemetary. This song brings back some fond memories and yes - the score was absolutely BRILLIANT!
One of his best scores, and he has so many great ones.
RIP Sean Connery. My favorite of all your movies. 😢 The music was perfect. Thank you Mr. Mancini.
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I love this music
Great movie , beautiful music.
Sean Connery had been tired of doing the Bond films and this movie proves what a fantastic actor he was.Full of anger, life, passion it was there to witness. One of his finest performances ever, and is my top 5 movies of all time.
My mom had huge crushes on Harris and Connery when I was a kid. They were in their prime when they made this film. When our family was driving to our yearly vacation in West Virginia, she made my dad detour to where they were filming, with hopes of seeing them. Sadly for her, on that day we were told they weren't filming and the place looked deserted. 🤐 But she did get to see her 2 favs on the big screen together...ahhh memories of my youth.
I have always told my husband about the time I was 18, my dad was driving us on our vacation in the area and I must have found out they were filming nearby. I had a mad crush on both of them and begged my dad to go there. He said "Honey, they are grown men, what do you think you are going to do there?" I answered " Look at them!!!"
My Mom liked them too
Why isn't this movie shown more often? It's hardly ever seen, even around St, Patrick's Day. The acting & cast, the scenery, the story. What's not to like?
Excellent Valdez....Went down London to the West End Premiere in 1970 to watch this great film..
Filmed just outside my hometown using many extras from the area. The music is outstanding!
An excellently presented video. The music, I believe, was a triumph for Henry Mancini, and he left us with many memorable melodies and arrangements. I thought that the movie was among the best that Hollywood has to offer, yet in TeeVee menu listings it only gets 2 stars (out of 4); I scratch my head to figure why it never rated better. Molly Maguires showcased Sean Connery as an actor of great depth and versatility beyond James Bond(though he was a perfect James Bond, but could have been type-cast). Richard Harris added a tour de force to his reportorie. And Samantha Eggar developed a strong, believeable character to foil the men. I wish that I could name all the other actors - the policeman, the wives, the priest, etc. - who filled out the cast. As I post this comment it is 50 years since the movie's debut and it is being celebrated in Eckley, PA this very weekend; I should be there, but I'm stuck in Michigan. Incidently, Ms Eggar wrote a respectful, heartfelt letter to the people of Eckley to acknowledge the anniversary and her time there for the filming. Wilkes-Barre is my hometown, I roamed the hills there as I grew up, and hearing the Molly's theme always chokes me up.
Butch
Another triumph excellently done. Perfect pairing of pictures to Mancini's music.
Very moving.
Thank you so much for this great score...
Born in 1964 in Harrisburg Pennsylvania and I remember well when this movie came out. I have Irish ancestry on both my parents sides as well as Scottish and this means so much to me. It shows strongly how the Irish struggled to assimilate even here into America and the bigotry and prejudice they overcame!!🇺🇸🇮🇪
In the 1940s and 1950s I grew up in Keystone Shaft, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Although the mines closed in the late 1930s, remenants of the shaft , mine buildings, fan house and railroad loading tracks were much evident. Coal dumps nearly surrounded this small village where we ran about as kids. The smell of coal dumps, railroad tracks, train cars and chimney coal smoke has remained with me all my life no matter how far away from my chilhood home. I look back at the richness of it 'all' secluded away from the 'other' world. This song reminds me of all the seasons and the slowness of hours of those times. I am very fortunate of this kind of childhood. From Mary's husband. . .
My father and his people were from the Hard Coal region of PA.
I have toured so many times over those counties, and each time it is all new....
The movie was mostly filmed in Eckley, Pa.
Go there, but watch the film first.
Good movie and score. I hope this comment finds you well in 2021 amongst our Covid misery's..
I first seen the movie the Molly Maguires on Saturday, March 8,1970 at the American movie theatre on North Main Street in my late fathers Ho,e town of Pittston, PA, my 2 younger brothers went with me to see it, then my late parents seen it we spent the weekend with my late paternal grandmother & late aunt. My paternal grandfather was a breaker boy at 7 when he had no choice but to go to work.
Inolvidable...
People where I live, here in the Adirondacks, cut the timber that shored up those mines.
A masterpiece
Great movie, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar and Sean Connery are great in it....and so is Frank Finlay as the police chief. I think it is an overlooked film....if you saw it back in the day you remember it....but it doesn't really crop up on TV.
I was so inspired by the background music by Henry Mancini that I wrote my own book on the Molly saga. My family was caught up in this struggle on both sides. My moms family of men were coal miners. My dad died from “ Black Lung” . My dads family were the mine bosses, movers and shakers. I even had a part in the movie as an extra, one of the breaker boys. I was fortunate to meet and get to know the actors. Sean Connery and Richard Harris were regular people, once you got to know them.
Henry Mancini was an American composer of Italian ancestry. His music was pure classic Irish Melodie’s. Mancini captured the essence of the time and people with his wonderful scores.
I have this film on VHS tape and DVD. Its never old or boring to me when I view the drama.
I found all the spots the producer chose to shoot his film in. I learned of where all the events actually occurred. In my travels I found myself in the mines and in the jail cells. I located where their humble homes where, some still standing.
I very much liked your video.
This was and is a great movie....I find it hard to believe it was not box office successful or that so few people have seen it - I mean, Sean Connery and Richard Harris in their prime as actors? And great supporting cast. Zerbe and Finley? And finally this great tender and melancholic score...
My dad remembers when they were filming this. We live about a half hour from Mauch Chunk (Jim Thorpe). Serious Coaltown pride for the Molly’s.
Thank you again for uploading this!!!
The movie was well done and Mancini's music adds the perfect touch. The town where the movie was filmed was so original in the setting--it was made a landmark for Penna coal mining--or so I just read on the web.
It is called Miners Village in Eckley, PA just slightly Northeast of Hazleton.
6:57 to 7:11, love it! Thanks so much for posting!
For some reason I get the tune Sgt MacKenzie stuck in my head whenever I hear this song. It is funny because that tune was a favorite of the Mcguires in Ireland.
The last great film Samantha Eggar was allowed to be in. Rough being an actress over 30. She was brilliant.
People really don't want to see aged women who've lost their youthful beauty. Once that goes away they don't seem to return to the screen until they are very old. Then you're like wow haven't seen her in eons wow she's still alive.
@@steamgent4592 She was still smoking well in to her 40s. Her looks never diminished. She described her work after having kids as stuff she agreed to do in order to make money and still spend most of the year with her kids, which probably explains many of the low budget horror films she did in the 70's and 80's.
It's a real beauty suite!!! i listen in this moment !!! ¡¡Is great!!... With your permission I add it to my Facebook wall ....Such greatness is to make it known to future generations! .... I wish of heart for you a happy weekend ... !
The soundtrack to our family visits to Tuscarora, PA.
This is a marvelous score and the images accompanying it are well put together. I first saw this film in February, 1971, when I ran it at the cinema where I was then the projectionist and thought it was a superb film and well acted. I have the soundtrack LP and the 45 rpm single by Henry Mancini, the Front-of-House set of seven colour stills (yes, there were seven, not the usual eight stills in this set); the British quad poster and, of course, the widescreen DVD. Thanks for uploading this.
I had a summer gig as an extra in this flick. During the Rugby game there is a young lad adjusting the score cards. Yup ‘‘twas me. I got about 10 seconds on camera. Later on I heard that clip ended up on the cutting floor. From there I went in the Army and served in Nam. My 1st Sgt. Called me private Hollywood. I never saw the film until it came out on VHS. In the early 1980’s.
I'm coming from a family of Irish coal miners this was pretty much as bad as it was going to get for you, thank God for true grit & soul
The Irish coal miner that were called the Molly Maguires were the very first Civil Rights group & the ancestor of the United Mine Workers Union. My paternal grandfather the late Christopher O’Rourke became a breaker boy in the mines in Pittston at age 7 when his education stopped, that was 5 years before the Federal Child Labor Laws were enacted. My grandfather was whipped across his back when he was a breaker boy by the breaker boys boss who was a member of the satanic, Devil worship, terrorist group called the KKK in the 1900’s in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
well done. quality score and great montage of photos. really glad they made this movie it is one for the ages. about 15 yrs ago I walked thru the jail where they hung the four Mollies and filmed this movie also the main street of old Mauch Chunk modern day Jim Thorpe PA where Richard Harris and Samamtha Eggar filmed the go to town scene.
Richard Harris was great in this film.
RIP. Sir Sean Connery
Nicely judged video. Great score.
I watched the movie in February, 1970 at the American theatre in my late fathers hometown of Pittston, Pennsylvania. My great-grandfather O'Rourke who came from County Sligo/County Leitrim, Ireland died in 1900 in a coal mine cave in. My paternal grandfathers education stopped at the age of 7, he had to go to work in the mines as a breaker boy. He was whipped across his back in the mines & on his arms, this was before the 1905 Child Labor Laws.
Apart from the Music itself , set against a Collage of excellence Images
I fail to see how anyone visiting here would give it nine thumbs down
Utterly ridiculous
Excellent quality
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Especially as the Soundtrack is at the moment at least very expensive to purchase
An old Vinyl copy will cost you a starting bid of £10 upwards
And vultures are asking £40 upwards for a Cd Re Release
i grew up in Eckley best years of my life!!! had to do the Irish jig for Martin Ritt;;; aced it!!! Then he did a magic trick on me and made a quarter come out of my nose!! I couldn't sleep that night because I thought there were more stuck up there............I was 9,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,miss you Eckley xo Marianne Berlando 116 Main Street Eckley Denion Family
+Marianne Marolo I'm from Nesquehoning originally (now live in Virginia Beach, VA), and I was in high school when they were in the area filming this movie. I remember the town of Jim Thorpe being dressed to look like the "big city" of Philadelphia. The theater façade covering the big plate glass windows of that sporting goods store was still there as late as 1988 or '89. I'd only been to Eckley six or eight times, but I have a friend back home, Dave Matsinko, who still performs folk music there on occasion. Today, being St. Paddy's day, I'll be getting out me DVD of this movie and watching it again, paying close attention to the "Philadelphia" street scene with Richard Harris and Samantha Egger, and looking for some of my old neighbors who were extras on screen. :-)
Why isn't this movie on T.V. more often?
It was on talking pictures TV sky 328 last Saturday .I agree with you .its very underrated movie .its powerful with great performances by Connery and Harris .
Fabulosa
There are over 25 well written books on this subject. One should read them before you consider them heroes. Both sides of the story were evil, only the left behind women and children were the innocent victims. Just as in any war no one ever wins.
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thank you for this !!! does anyone know how I can get a copy of this suite??
I sometimes think about my trials and tribulations, but they don't compare to the men and woman of this generation.
My grandfather owned the emerald house in this movie
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My ride through the four counties in eastern PA known for anthracite coal mining was quite interesting. Parts still very rural and therefore retain much charm and beauty. The Carbon County Jail where they hung the four Mollies is now a museum. Sean Connery and Richard Harris filmed the prison scenes there, you can look up to the highest level where they did filming but can't go there. You can visit solitary confinement cells in basemt with the cell with the handprint on the wall - Molly's curse.
I was told the hand print is in the Pottsville jail. I’m kinda confused how they ended up in carbon county. Since they bombed the breaker In Shenandoah in schuykill county.
On The day of the rope June 21st , is how the Men of the Mollys are remembered in the coal region.
Most of the movie was filmed in Eckley, Pa.
Im from the quaker city Gulag as soon as I head out west on to the TPK my B.P. starts decreasing a few points , Dutch Country, the Mountains, ?? !!!
Me interesó ver esta pelicula pero hay partes que no están dobladas al castellano y tampoco tienen subtítulo. La podrán pasar totalmente doblada o bien con subtítulos al castellano (prefiero doblada o bien con ambas) Gracias.
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Does anyone know where the location of 13:00 is? The old jail in Jim Thorpe?
Yes it is
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the same thing goes on today- grt artists like mancini give voice to the oppressed- let us continue to fight capitalism- this nmessage from david eberhardt NOT cathy permut
+Cathy Permut; If u think socialism and or communism is any better u are totally delusional.
The film was politically determined to be too pro union as the largest Teamsters and steel workers strikes were occurring that year of release.
Beautiful score but grafted onto a poor film.