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Captain Lightfoot
Captain Lightfoot
	Film poster by Reynold Brown
Directed by	Douglas Sirk
Screenplay by	W. R. Burnett; Oscar Brodney
Based on	a novel by W. R. Burnett
Produced by	Ross Hunter
Starring	Rock Hudson; Barbara Rush; Jeff Morrow
Cinematography	Irving Glassberg
Edited by	Frank Gross
Music by	Heinz Roemheld; Herman Stein
Production; company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	February 18, 1955 (Chicago, Illinois); March 26, 1955 (United States);
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.3 million (US)

Captain Lightfoot is a 1955 American CinemaScope Technicolor adventure film directed by Douglas Sirk starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush and Jeff Morrow and is Sirk's adaptation of a book by W. R. Burnett written in 1954.

The movie is set in the early 19th century with the hero and his brother-in-arms becoming highwaymen, robbing the wealthy around the foothills of Dublin, Ireland. Captain Lightfoot falls in love, and the ensuing drama threatens everyone's safety.

The movie was filmed around Clogherhead, County Louth, Marlay Park in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, and in the Powerscourt Estate in Enniskerry, County Wicklow. Slane Castle in Slane County Meath was used as the exterior of Ballymore Castle.

Director/writer Michael Cimino utilized the nicknames of Martin and Doherty for the main characters in his debut feature film, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974).

Plot

In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to support it, and soon becomes an outlaw. In Dublin, he meets famous rebel "Captain Thunderbolt" and becomes his second-in-command, under the name "Lightfoot." They give off a sense of pleasure

Cast

Rock Hudson as Michael Martin, aka "Lightfoot"^[2]
Barbara Rush as Aga Doherty
Jeff Morrow as John Doherty, aka "Capt. Thunderbolt"
Kathleen Ryan as Lady Anne More
Finlay Currie as Callahan
Denis O'Dea as Regis Donnell
Geoffrey Toone as Captain Hood
Hilton Edwards as Lord Glen
Sheila Brennan as Waitress
Harry Goldblatt as Brady
Charles B. Fitzsimons as Dan Shanley
Christopher Casson as Lord Clonmell
Philip O'Flynn as Trim

References

^ 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1955', Variety Weekly, January 25, 1956
^ "Captain Lightfoot". The New Yorker.

Tony Tracy, "Captain Lightfoot (1955): Caught between a Rock (Hudson) and a Rapparee," Screening Irish America (ed. Ruth Barton), (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009)