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''Ryan's Daughter'' is a 1970 epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean.〔''Variety'' film review; 11 November 1970, page 15.〕〔''The Irish Filmography 1896–1996''; Red Mountain Press; 1996. Page 180.〕 The film, set in 1916, tells the story of a married Irish woman who has an affair with a British officer during World War I, despite opposition from her nationalist neighbours. The film is a very loose adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel ''Madame Bovary''. The film stars Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, John Mills, Christopher Jones, Trevor Howard and Leo McKern, with a score by Maurice Jarre. It was photographed in Super Panavision 70 by Freddie Young. In its initial release, ''Ryan's Daughter'' was harshly received by critics〔Hall, S. and Neale, S. ''Epics, spectacles, and blockbusters: a Hollywood history'' (p. 181). Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan; 2010. ISBN 978-0-8143-3008-1. Retrieved 25 March 2011.〕 but was a box office success, grossing nearly $31 million〔 on a budget of $13.3 million, making the film the eighth highest-grossing picture of 1970. It received two Academy Awards, but was not nominated for best picture. ==Plot summary== Rosy Ryan (Sarah Miles) is on a cliff high above the Atlantic Ocean in the town of Kirrary, an isolated village on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. A gust of wind takes her parasol over the cliff and down into the ocean, where it lands next to a currach containing Father Hugh Collins (Trevor Howard) and a mentally impaired man named Michael (John Mills) who retrieves the parasol. On the beach, Michael proudly reunites Rosy with her parasol and shows her an enormous, thrashing lobster that he has caught. The townspeople play a vicious game of Keep Away with Michael and the lobster until Father Collins shames them for their abuse. The daughter of the local publican Tom Ryan (Leo McKern), Rosy is bored with life in Kirrary. She falls in love with the local schoolmaster, Charles Shaughnessy (Robert Mitchum). She imagines, though he tries to convince her otherwise, that he will add excitement to her life. Their wedding is a high point for life in the village, which raucously celebrates their consummation. Soon after the wedding, the Shaunessy's life together calms considerably as Charles presses wildflowers while Rosy embroiders by the fire. The villagers are nationalist and exclusionary, taunting British soldiers from a nearby army base. At Ryan's Bar, everyone is welcomed, and the owner's loyalties are unclear. He strongly supports the recently suppressed Easter Rising, referring to the rebels as "our boys" – but he also graciously serves the British. Major Randolph Doryan (Christopher Jones) arrives to take command of the base. A veteran of World War I, he has been awarded a Victoria Cross, but has a crippled leg and suffers from shell shock. During his orientation, Doryan is told that Ryan is an informer, but that most of his information is useless, since so little happens in Kirrary. Rosy is instantly and passionately attracted to Doryan. Michael's absent-minded banging of his leg on the pub bench causes Doryan to flashback to the trenches. He collapses. When he recovers, he is comforted by Rosy. The two passionately kiss until they are interrupted by the arrival of Ryan and the townspeople. The next day, the two meet in the forest for a passionate liaison. Charles becomes suspicious of Rosy, but keeps his thoughts to himself. After an Intermission and an Entracte, Charles takes his students to the beach where he notices Doryan's telltale footprints accompanied by a woman's in the sand. He tracks the prints to a cave and imagines Doryan and Rosy conducting an affair. Michael notices the footprints as well and searches the cave for a trinket. He finds Doryan's Victoria Cross, which he pins on his own lapel. He proudly parades through town with the medal on his chest, and he suffers more horrendous abuse by the villagers. When Rosy comes riding through town, Michael approaches her tenderly. Between Rosy's feelings of guilt and Michael's pantomime, the villagers deduce that she is having an affair with Doryan. One night, during a fierce storm, IRB leader Tim O'Leary (Barry Foster) – who had killed a police constable earlier – and a small band of comrades arrive in Ryan's pub. He dutifully agrees to help them recover a shipment of German arms from the storm. When they leave, Ryan is left alone in possession of the phone, and tips off the British. Retrieving the munitions seems impossible because the storm is so ferocious, but the entire town turns out to help the rebels. Ryan is the most devoted to the task, wading into the breakers to repeatedly salvage the boxes of bullets and dynamite. He would surely have died if he had not been anchored to two other villagers by a rope. O'Leary is overwhelmed by Ryan's devotion, and the town is ebullient. They gleefully free the rebels' fully loaded truck from the wet sand, and follow it up the hill where Doryan and his troops lie in wait. O'Leary runs for his life, and Doryan climbs atop the truck. At an incredible distance, he wounds O'Leary with a rifle. As he prepares for the kill shot, Doryan starts to flash back to the war and collapses. Rosy presses through the crowd in concern, and the villagers are outraged at her blatant betrayal. Charles tells Rosy that he had let her affair run its course, hoping that the infatuation would pass. He tells her that he will arrange for an amicable divorce. Rosy confesses that the affair is over, but that night she returns to Doryan. In dismay, Charles wanders in his nightclothes to the beach, where Father Collins finds him. The villagers storm into the Shaunessy's quarters at the schoolhouse and demand Rosy. They are convinced that she informed the British of the arms shipment. Ryan watches in shame and horror as his daughter takes the blame for his betrayal. The mob shears off her hair and strips off her clothes in the process. Doryan walks along the beach and gives his cigarette case to Michael. In gratitude, Michael leads Doryan to a cache of arms–-including dynamite–-that was not recovered. After Michael runs off, Doryan commits suicide by detonating the explosives. The next day, Rosy and Charles leave for Dublin, enduring the taunts of the villagers as they go. Just before the bus leaves, Rosy, who had previously found Michael repulsive to her, very touchingly kisses him on the cheek. Then, as Charles gets on the bus, Father Collins gives him an enigmatic advice: And so the father shoves the overwhelmed teacher into the bus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ryan's Daughter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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