Oct 11, 2009 | Daily Express
EVERYONE in the little town of Dingle in Co Kerry, Ireland, remembers the heady days and boisterous nights when Hollywood took over their lives for the filming of Ryan's Daughter.
The critics loathed it, and the public just ignored it. When Ryan's Daughter was released in 1970, it proved such a box-office dud that many blame it for stalling the director David Lean's career for 10 years.
I met John McHugh in the autumn of 1966, when I was a cub reporter on the Sun-Times and he was a rewrite man, two years my senior, on the Chicago Daily News.
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