High Spirits

High Spirits

Peter Plunkett

Eamon

Katie

Mrs. Plunkett

Sampson

Christy

Patricia

Julia

Gateman (as Little John)

Jack Crawford

Sharon Brogan Crawford

Miranda

Brother Tony

Marge

Wendy

Woody

Graham

Mary Plunkett Brogan

Martin Brogan

Plunkett Senior

Great Granny Plunkett

Great Aunt Nan

Great Uncle Peter

Sean Connery was offered the role of Peter Plunkett by the studio. He later dropped out of the film and the role was re-cast with Peter O'Toole.

Liz Smith was cast at short notice after the original choice, Beryl Reid, was too ill to work.

Director Neil Jordan has always maintained that the release version of this film is very different from the one he shot. He was more or less excluded from the editing process of the final cut. He insists that his version is still locked away in a vault.

During the final dance sequence, Beverly D'Angelo accidentally knocks Daryl Hannah's hand making her spill her champagne on the floor. Daryl briefly makes a face before continuing the dance.

When the flying banshee smashes into Sharon and Jack's bathroom window Sharon has a white face mask on but when she goes down stairs her mask is gone.

During the scene with the spinning bed the man cranking the wheel above it falls through and lands on the bed with Miranda and Tony. They are all three on the bed as they slide down the stairs but when they reach the bottom and Plunkett ends up in the bed the man is gone.

Peter Plunkett: [on the phone with Jim Brogan] Sir, once again I must remind you that my first name is not "dick". Nor is my surname "face". It is simply "Peter". "Peter Plunkett"... No, I was not given a middle name but I'm sure if I had, my mother would not have chosen "shit-for-brains peckerhead"... Well then clearly you know a side to my mother that I have been happily sheltered from. Nevertheless I marvel at your colorfully creative ever so American colloquialism which flow so trippingly from your razor-like tongue!

Mary Plunkett Brogan: If he kills me one more time, I'll *scream*!

Peter Plunkett: [speaking to the ghost of his father in the office] What did you have to give me this place for? You knew I was an incompetent! All I wanted to be was happily useless. You made me miserably useless. What did you give me this place for?