The Manions of America

• Directors: Charles S. Dubin; Joseph Sargent
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• Genre: Drama
• Release Year: 1981
• Country: US
• Run Time: 290 minutes

Plot

The Manions of America was a three-part miniseries originally telecast September 30, and October 1 and 2, 1981. Set in Ireland and Philadelphia in the late 1840's, Rory O'Manion (Pierce Brosnan in his American TV-movie debut) escapes from the Great Irish Potato Famine to head to America, where he goes into business, opens old wounds with old enemies, and is reunited with his lover from the old country, British blueblood Rachel Clements (Kate Mulgrew). This expensive project was scripted by onetime Upstairs Downstairs staff writer Rosemary Anne Sisson. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Kathleen Beller; Pierce Brosnan; Steve Forrest; Kate Mulgrew; Linda Purl; David Soul; Simon MacCorkindale; Jim Culleton; Patrick Hammond

Credit

Connor Devlin - Art Director, Barbara Lane - Costume Designer, Charles S. Dubin - Director, Joseph Sargent - Director, Michael Brown - Editor, Roger Gimbel - Executive Producer, Tony Converse - Executive Producer, Morton Stevens - Composer (Music Score), Paul Barnes - Production Designer, Hector R. Figueroa - Cinematographer, Frank Watts - Cinematographer, Lamar Bowen - Cinematographer, Stanley Kallis - Producer, Agnes Nixon - Screenwriter, Rosemary Anne Sission - Screenwriter