The Quare Fellow (1963)

Thomas Crimmins is a new warder or guard in an Irish prison He is young naive and idealistic determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals His superior Regan however realizes that even prisoners are human beings and Regan is sick of the eyeforaneye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men or quare fellows Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world and when he becomes involved with Kathleen the wife of one of the condemned men his attitude begins to change When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleens husband may not deserve his fate Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity