The Fighting O'Flynn is a 1949 American film

Film

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 that was directed by Arthur Pierson. The film's screenplay

Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...

 by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is based on the novel of the same name by Justin Huntly McCarthy. The film starred Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as The O'Flynn, Helena Carter

Helena Carter

Helena Carter was an American film actress in the 1940s and 1950s.Carter was born Helen Rickerts in New York City, and her family was of Scottish descent. She attended Columbia University, studying for a teaching degree. During this period she worked as a fashion model, which led to her becoming a...

 as Lady Benedetta, Richard Greene

Richard Greene

Richard Marius Joseph Greene was a noted English film and television actor. A matinee idol who appeared in more than 40 films, he was perhaps best known for the lead role in the long-running British TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood, which ran for 143 episodes from 1955 to 1960.It has been...

 as Lord Philip Sedgemonth, Patricia Medina

Patricia Medina

Patricia Paz Maria Medina is an English actress from Liverpool, England. Her father was a Spaniard and her mother was English. Medina began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s...

 as Fancy Free, Arthur Shields

Arthur Shields

Arthur Shields was an Irish stage and film actor.Born into an Irish Protestant family in Portobello, Dublin, he started acting in the Abbey Theatre when still a young man. He was the younger brother of Oscar-winning actor Barry Fitzgerald. An Irish nationalist, he fought in the Easter Rising of...

 as Dooley, J.M. Kerrigan as Timothy, Ludwig Donath

Ludwig Donath

Ludwig Donath , was an Austrian actor who appeared in many American films.-Life:Donath graduated from Vienna's Academy of Dramatic Art and became a prominent actor on the stage in Berlin. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he returned to Vienna and was active there in theater and film and until the...

 as Hendrigg, Lumsden Hare

Lumsden Hare

Lumsden Hare was an Irish born film and theatre actor. He was also a theatre director and theatrical producer....

 as the viceroy, Otto Waldis as General van Dronk, Henry Brandon as Lt. Corpe, Harry Cording

Harry Cording

Harry Cording was a British character actor who appeared in many Hollywood films from the 1920s to the 1950s. Due to his stocky build and imposing 6'0 height, he usually portrayed thugs and henchman to the main villain....

 as Pat, John Doucette

John Doucette

John Doucette was a film character actor. He was a balding, husky man remembered for playing mob muscle and western bad guys in movies...

 as Jack, and Patrick O'Moore as Major Steele.