Watch A Prayer for the Dying (1987) Free Online

Release Date: 1987

Cast: Sammi Davis, Christopher Fulford, Mickey Rourke, Alison Doody, Leonard Termo, Camille Coduri, Alan Bates, Maurice O'Connell, Liam Neeson, Bob Hoskins

Categories: Movies, Action, Indie, Crime Thriller, Gangster, Crime Fiction, Film Adaptation, Drama Film, Action/Adventure, Political Thriller, Thriller

A Prayer for the Dying is a 1987 thriller film about a former IRA member trying to escape his past. The film was directed by Mike Hodges, and stars Mickey Rourke, Liam Neeson, Bob Hoskins, and Alan Bates. The film is based on the Jack Higgins novel of the same name. The film begins with Martin Fallon (Mickey Rourke) and his IRA team tracking two British Army Landrovers on a lonely road. They have planted a bomb ahead to kill the soldiers. At the last minute, a school van overtakes the Landrovers, and hits the bomb killing all the children. This totally shakes Fallon who wants to leave the... MORE

A Prayer for the Dying is a 1987 thriller film about a former IRA member trying to escape his past. The film was directed by Mike Hodges, and stars Mickey Rourke, Liam Neeson, Bob Hoskins, and Alan Bates. The film is based on the Jack Higgins novel of the same name. The film begins with Martin Fallon (Mickey Rourke) and his IRA team tracking two British Army Landrovers on a lonely road. They have planted a bomb ahead to kill the soldiers. At the last minute, a school van overtakes the Landrovers, and hits the bomb killing all the children. This totally shakes Fallon who wants to leave the violence and goes to London in order to eventually move to the US. He lands in London and takes sanctuary in a church pretending to be a reporter escaping from the UK. He contacts a prior contact in London who introduces him to a local mob leader. The mob leader and his psychopathic younger brother know of his past and offer him a passport and lots of money in order to complete one last job. Reluctantly he agrees. Meanwhile he starts falling in love with the blind niece of the parish priest (Bob Hoskins). To his horror, the job is to murder the priest since he has witnessed the mob leader's LESS