In this mock opera infused with gallows humour, Ronnie Drew and his band of bohemian merrymakers, The Dubliners, re-enact the execution ballad ‘The Night Before Larry Was Stretched’. Larry finds himself caught in a hangman’s noose as just reward for being ‘the best burglar in all Ireland’. Made in 1965, the film remained uncompleted and unseen until its restoration in 1998.
Kevin Sheldon
Producer
Kevin Sheldon
Director
Sé Merry Doyle
Producer
Ronnie Drew
Larry
Séamus Ennis
Johnny Moynihan
Ciarán Bourke
Luke Kelly
Barney McKenna
Bobby Lynch
John Sheahan
Marie Grehan
Francie Grehan
Helen "Bernie" Grehan
