after read the original play i think it would have be much more difficult to adapt to screen than it turn out to be . donal mccann put in a once off great performance a public gar and the repressed antagonist who be manifest openly on screen by his extroverted ( but unseen to others ) alterego private gar . eamonn kelly also play an excellent screwball whose inability to communicate his feeling be match only by gar . definitely worth rent out if you can find it . ( probably unavailable outside ireland and uk ) .