Arts: One man's generation game.(Features) From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) | Date: July 25, 2000| Author: Hill, Ian | COPYRIGHT 2000 Century Newspapers Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Valley of Fear is the very best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes and Watson thrillers.

But director Martin Ritt dispensed with the English ending and concentrated, in his film adaptation, called the The Molly Maguires, on the ambiguous relationship between Sean Connery as the striker, Richard Harris as the informer during the brutal and inconclusive Pennsylvania anthracite mining wars of 1876.

Connery played the leader of the Molly Maguires, a secret soc...