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film starring

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and his bandmates in

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. The film is a mock opera, based on the ballad "The Night That Larry Was Stretched".O'Donoghue's Opera
, Irish Film Institute. It was shot in 1965, but was left uncompleted after the film's production ran into financial difficulties.
''Irish Independent'', 2007-12-12. In 1996 filmmaker Sé Merry Doyle o
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oversaw its restoration, and it was first shown at the

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in the late 1990s. Producer Seamus Byrne's first job in the film industry was on this film working with the assistant director and the art director.

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