window, he imagines the snow falling all over Ireland, "upon all the living and the dead." Cast Anjelica Huston as Gretta Conroy Donal McCann as Gabriel Conroy Helena Carroll as Aunt Kate Morkan Cathleen Delany as Aunt Julia Morkan Rachael Dowling as Lily, the maid Ingrid Craigie as Mary Jane, the niece Dan O'Herlihy as Dan Browne Marie Kean as Mrs Malins Donal Donnelly as Theodore Alfred "Freddy" Malins Seán McClory as Mr. Grace Frank Patterson as Bartell D'Arcy Katherine O'Toole as Miss Furlong Bairbre Dowling as Miss Higgins Maria Hayden as Miss O'Callaghan Cormac O'Herlihy as Joseph Kerrigan Colm Meaney as Raymond Bergin Maria McDermottroe as Molly Ivors Lyda Anderson as Miss Daly Dara Clarke as Young Lady Paul Grant as 1st Young Gentleman Paul Carroll as 2nd Young Gentleman Patrick Gallagher as 3rd Young Gentleman Brendan Dillon as Cabman Redmond Gleeson as Nightporter Adaptation Tony Huston's screenplay was a fairly close adaptation of the original story, with some alterations made to the dialogue to aid the narrative for cinema audiences. The most significant change to the story was the inclusion of a new character, Mr. Grace, who, in the film, recites an English translation of the eighth-century Middle Irish poem "Donal Óg". Production Weiland Schulz-Keil and Chris Sievernich, the producers of the film, had previously raised the money for Huston's 1984 film Under the Volcano. Screen rights to "The Dead" were purchased from the Joyce estate for $60,000. Filming began on 19 January 1987. According to Pauline Kael, "Huston directed the movie, at eighty, from a wheelchair, jumping up to look through the camera, with oxygen tubes trailing from his nose to a portable generator; most of the time, he had to watch the actors on a video monitor outside the set and use a microphone to speak to the crew. Yet he went into dramatic areas that he'd never gone into before - funny, warm family scenes that might be thought completely out of his range. Huston never before blended his actors so intuitively, so musically." Anjelica Huston said her father remained a filmmaking virtuoso despite his ill health: "He was so sick, but he could literally do it with his eyes closed. He knew when we were going to get a take way long before the camera rolled. I mean the timing was so precise that he could tell everything, exactly how it was going to