Far And Away | 1992
- Locations |
- Republic of Ireland;
- Montana
- DIRECTOR |
- Ron Howard
More misty-eyed nostalgia for old Oireland as Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman emigrate to the New World.
The Irish coastal scenes used the Dingle Peninsula, where, as for David Lean’s Ryan’s Daughter a village was built specially for the movie. The country estate, where poor country lad Joseph Donnelly (Cruise) falls for the daughter of the landowner, is Killruddery House and Gardens, near Bray just south of Dublin.
Seat of the Earl of Meath, the house is still there (its fiery destruction was computer generated), and has since been seen in My Left Foot and TV series The Tudors. The unique 17th Century gardens are open on weekends in April and October, and seven days a week from May to September, and there are guided tours of the house.
Donnelly and Shannon Christie (Kidman) flee to the US – but filming continues in the Republic of Ireland.
Their arrival in turn-of-the-century ‘Boston’ was filmed on Market Street, behind the Guinness Brewery in Dublin. The bustling street scenes, with the brothel where Donnelly stays, is Temple Lane, near the Ha’penny Bridge. Molly Kay’s brothel, Donnelly ’s lodging, was built on a vacant lot between a pub and a pizza parlour.
And although the ‘Oklahoma Land Rush’ really is in the US, the spectacular land-grab was shot just outside Billings, Montana.
