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Captain Lightfoot

Captain Lightfoot
Captain Lightfoot - Film Poster.jpg
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Produced by Ross Hunter
Written by W.R. Burnett
Starring Rock Hudson
Barbara Rush
Jeff Morrow
Music by Heinz Roemheld
Herman Stein
Cinematography Irving Glassberg
Edited by Frank Gross
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • February 18, 1955 (1955-02-18) (Chicago, Illinois)
  • March 26, 1955 (1955-03-26) (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 a Hollywood 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 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 and in the Powerscourt Estate in Enniskerry, County Wicklow.



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