Fifty Dead Men Walking DVD, 2008

aka 50 Dead Men Walking

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MovieMail's Review

Modern cinema loves the figure of the informer: it makes for great drama and has provided plum roles for actors including Ray Liotta in Goodfellas, Johnny Depp in Donnie Brasco and Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Departed. The newest addition to that list is the up-and-coming Jim Sturgess (seen in Across the Universe and 21) in this dark tale based on real events.

Sturgess is superb as Martin McGartland, a young man from west Belfast who was recruited by the British Police in the 1980s to infiltrate the IRA. Seemingly immune to fear, he struggles with his conscience as he rises up the ranks, feeds information to his British handler (Ben Kingsley, again proving himself a national treasure) and starts a family with his girlfriend (Natalie Press). Director Kari Skogland ratchets up the tension and lays out the human cost of working as a 'tout'. Fifty Dead Men Walking (the title is a reference to the lives saved by McGartland's informing) is a gripping account of an episode from all-too-recent history.

Nick Riddle on 1st August 2009
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Film Information

Director - Kari Skogland

Produced - 2008

Main Language - English

Countries & Regions - Canadian Film, British Film

Cast - Ben Kingsley, Rose McGowan, Tom Collins, Gerard Jordan, Laura Hughes, Michael McElhatton

DVD Details

Certificate:	15	Publisher:	IN2F	Region:	2
Length:	117 mins	Cat No:	I2F3195
Format:	DVD Colour

Film Description

Fifty Dead Men Walking is a thriller loosely based on the autobiography by Martin McGartland, former undercover informant to the British police on the activities of the IRA. Set in Belfast in the late 1980s, the film shows how McGartland led a double life for four years while still in his early twenties, revealing nothing of his position even to close friends and family, until his cover was blown in 1991 and he was kidnapped and tortured by the IRA. Ben Kingsley co-stars as Fergus, McGartland's British 'handler'.