The Luck of Ginger Coffey

…set during World War II; The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964) was a low-budget drama featuring real-life married couple Robert Shaw and Mary Ure as husband and wife; and A Fine Madness (1966) featured Sean Connery as an irreverent poet whose outbursts of violence earn him a lobotomy. In 1967…

…trouble holding a job in The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964), based on a novel by Brian Moore. He was later cast as a German officer in Battle of the Bulge (1965). Shaw’s performance as King Henry VIII in Fred Zinnemann’s A Man for All Seasons (1966) earned him an…