A woman married to a schoolmaster in a poor Irish village during the First World War has an affair with a British Army officer. But when the romance is uncovered, she is falsely accused of informing on local Republican insurgents - prompting the villagers to inflict a vindictive punishment. David Lean's epic romantic period drama, with Sarah Miles, Robert Mitchum, an Oscar-winning John Mills, Christopher Jones and Trevor Howard.

In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.