Home Is the Hero (1961)

This wellacted drama about an Irishman just released from jail is filled with rich characterization The story is adapted from a stage play by Walter Macken who also plays the role of the exconvict Paddo in this screen version Direction is by J Fielder Cook Once Paddo returns home after being sentenced to five years for killing a man his old friends try to put him back in their niche of local hero but Paddo will have none of it He is disillusioned and changed His son Willie Arthur Kennedy walks with a limp that keeps him too selfconscious to assert himself as he would like with the young woman of his dreams While other people come in and out of Paddos life from his taciturn friend the trapper to the local tinker it is Paddos son Willie suffering from his own disability who makes the difference in his fathers life