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Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s based on the novel by Taylor Caldwell.
Made in US
8.8/10
1976
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1. Chapter I
Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh and his two younger siblings Sean and Mary escape a ship on the harbor of New York. The situation ashore is problematic, jobs are scarce and food equally scarce. Aboard the ship their mother has died from disease, but they have a hope; their father is in Philadelphia awaiting them. The siblings run away, and discovers their father to be dead to, and young teenager Joseph places his siblings in an Orphanage while he himself goes to make money, become rich and get them out of poverty. The first episode follows Joseph for a few years through a series of struggles, and how he starts earning his first dollars and setting off into speculation in oil, together with his new-won friend, the Lebanese Haroun Al-Zieff (later: Harry Seff). The beginnings of a true rags-to-riches-story.
2. Chapter II
A few years of successful gun running and Joseph Armagh becomes a partner in the oil company of Ed Healey.
3. Chapter III
Joseph Armagh rejects the love of Elizabeth Healey, learns of the dying Katherine Hennessey's unrequited love, promising to wed her daughter Bernadette before Katherine's jealous husband goes too far in a salacious attack on Joseph.
4. Chapter IV
Tensions escalate between the labor unions and the railroad, as Joseph Armagh fathers four children with Bernadette even as he seeks to avenge himself on her father for depriving him of the two great loves of his life.
5. Chapter V
Joseph Armagh's attempted blackmail of an upstanding senator results in suicide and a lasting curse.
6. Chapter VI
Rory Armagh romances Marjorie Chisholm while his sister Anne-Marie's relationship with Courtney Wickersham crashes and burns through no fault of their own.
7. Chapter VII
While his son Rory searches for brother Kevin with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the jungles of Cuba, Joseph Armagh quietly orchestrates the annulment of Rory's marriage to Marjorie Chisholm.
8. Chapter VIII
Rory Armagh seeks the Democratic nomination for President over Woodrow Wilson, while his father ponders a lifetime without love.
Cast
Richard Jordan
As Joseph Armagh
Harvey Jason
As Harry Zieff
Patty Duke
As Bernadette Hennessey Armagh
Blair Brown
As Elizabeth Healey Hennessey
Robert Vaughn
As Charles Desmond
Perry King
As Rory Armagh
Katherine Crawford
As Mary Armagh
Jane Seymour
As Marjorie Chisholm Armagh
Cynthia Sikes
As Claudia
Charles Durning
As Ed Healey
David Huffman
As Sean Armagh
Terry Kiser
As Courtney Wickersham
Vic Morrow
As Tom Hennessey
Barbara Parkins
As Martinique
Joanna Pettet
As Katherine Hennessey
Jenny Sullivan
As Honora Houlihan
Beverly D'Angelo
As Miss Emmy
Burl Ives
As Old Syrup
Peter Donat
As Clair Montrose
Henry Fonda
As Sen. Enfield Bassett
John Houseman
As Judge Newell Chisholm
Celeste Holm
As Sister Angela
Joe Kapp
As Bill Strickland
Ann Dusenberry
As Anne-Marie
Ray Bolger
As R.J. Squibbs
Sian Barbara Allen
As Cara Leslie
Neville Brand
As O'Herlihy
John Carradine
As Father Hale
Pernell Roberts
As Colonel Elbert Braithwaite
Ann Sothern
As Mrs. Finch
Sally Kirkland
As Aggie
Philip Bourneuf
As Father Scanlon
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