Ryan's Daughter

After the enormous, Oscar-winning success of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, David Lean considered several subjects for his next film, including Gandhi, but they came to nothing. Then Robert Bolt produced a script version of Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary, which he and Lean eventually turned into a new story, Ryan's Daughter, set during the Irish Civil War in 1916.

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