

Captain Lightfoot
An unforgettably beautiful love story
In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to support it, and soon becomes an outlaw. In Dublin, he meets famous rebel "Captain Thunderbolt" and becomes his second-in-command, under the name "Lightfoot."
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
- $1.3M
- Language
- English
- rescue
- rebel
- turncoat
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- TheatricalNR26 Mar 1955
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Captain Lightfoot was released on 26 March 1955.
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CinemaSerf
11/25/2023
"Michael Martin" (Rock Hudson) is a low-key highwayman in early 1800s Ireland happy to rob the local gentry and contribute to Denis O'Shea's association that is peaceably pressuring for Irish freedom. The latter man isn't keen on accepting the fruits of crime, though, and so "Martin" leaves in a fit of pique and encounters a clergyman who takes him to a tavern. No room at the inn, but the preacher is a man of imagina…
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