Synopsis
The Molly Maguires (1970) is a historical thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Martin Ritt and starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris. Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. Irish immigrant miners dig coal for wages that flow straight back to the company through the company store — a system built to keep them in permanent debt.
A clandestine network inside the mines has begun hitting back: sabotage, threats, targeted violence. The mining company sends detective James McParland (Harris) to break the organization from within. Jack Kehoe (Connery) eyes the newcomer with cold suspicion from the first day and runs him through test after test.
Walter Bernstein's screenplay draws on the trial records of 1877, when most Maguire leaders were hanged. Ritt gives no easy verdict: by the time McParland files his final report, the audience has spent long enough underground to feel the pull from both sides. Stream The Molly Maguires (1970) online on iFILM.
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