Description
Michael Martin is a headstrong young patriot who has turned to highway robbery to support his country's cause against England during the Irish revolution. When he is taken under the wing of the famous rebel leader Captain Thunderbolt, he soon finds himself second-in-command with a bounty on his head.Story of a eighteenth-century Irish highwayman. Basis for the 1955 Douglas Sirk film starring Rock Hudson. W.R. Burnett is best known for hard-boiled noir fiction such as Little Caesar (1929), High Sierra (1941) and The Asphalt Jungle (1950).
