Project Detail

The Guard

Synopsis

A hard-living Galway Guard is forced to team up with a black FBI agent to break a drug smuggling ring off the West Coast.

Details

Year
2010
Type of project
Features
Director
John McDonagh
Producer
Martin McDonagh
Co-Producer
Martin McDonagh
Editor
Chris Gill
Screenwriter
John McDonagh
Director of Photography
Larry Smith
Production Designer
John Paul Kelly
Principal cast
Don Cheadle, Brendan Gleeson, Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham

Genre

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Element Pictures

21 Mespil Road
Dublin 4
Ireland

T +353 1 618 5032

www.elementpictures.ie

Reprisal Films

3 Medlar Street
London SE5 0JU
UK

www.reprisalfilms.com

Sales Company

Metropolis International Sales

Canon House
27 London End
Beaconsfield
Bucks HP9 2HN
UK

T +44 (0)1494 670 705

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