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HandMade’s 50 Dead Men Walking toward Toronto Film Festival
Thursday, August 14, 2008
HandMade Films, a company started in 1972 by Beatle George Harrison and famous for classics like Monty Python’s The Life of Brian, Time Bandits (a personal favorite) and the cult hit Withnail and I are screening a number of their films at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
50 Dead Men Walking starring Jim Sturgess (21, Across the Universe) and Sir Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Schindler’s List, Lucky Number Slevin, Elegy) will receive its International premiere during the festival by way of a Gala Screening at the Roy Thompson Hall. Screening times for the film are on the official TIFF page for the film.
50 Dead Men Walking, is inspired by Martin McGartland’s shocking real life story.
Martin is a young lad from west Belfast in the late 1980s who is recruited by the British Police to spy on the IRA. He works his way up the ranks as a volunteer for the IRA whilst feeding information to his British handler and saving lives in the process; until one day he is exposed, captured and tortured to within an inch of his life. He escaped dramatically by throwing himself from a tower block window and is still in hiding today. [from IMDb]
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