--- title: 'Ryan''s Daughter (1970)' type: 'film' director: 'David Lean' released: '1970-01-01' runtime_minutes: 189 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/ryans-daughter-1970' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066319/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Ryan's Daughter (1970) 1970 · 189 min · Drama · United Kingdom ## Synopsis Ryan's Daughter is a 1970 British epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean, written by Robert Bolt and starring Robert Mitchum and Sarah Miles. The film, set between August 1917 and January 1918, tells the story of a married Irish woman who has an affair with a British officer during World War I, despite moral and political opposition from her nationalist neighbours. The supporting cast features John Mills, Christopher Jones, Trevor Howard and Leo McKern. The film is a re-telling of the plot of Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel Madame Bovary. ## Credits - **Director:** [David Lean](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-lean) - **Screenplay:** [Robert Bolt](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-bolt) - **Original Music Composer:** [Maurice Jarre](https://cinepixo.com/people/maurice-jarre) - **Producer:** [Anthony Havelock-Allan](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-havelock-allan) - **Editor:** [Norman Savage](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-savage) ## Cast - [Trevor Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/trevor-howard) - [Christopher Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-jones) - [Marie Kean](https://cinepixo.com/people/marie-kean) - [Barry Jackson](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-jackson) - [Evin Crowley](https://cinepixo.com/people/evin-crowley) - [Sarah Miles](https://cinepixo.com/people/sarah-miles) - [Leo McKern](https://cinepixo.com/people/leo-mckern) - [Barry Foster](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-foster) - [Robert Mitchum](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-mitchum) - [John Mills](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-mills) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/ryans-daughter-1970 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1423795); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.