<P> A 1962 film version of the play was produced in Ireland, with the screenplay by writer - director Brian Desmond Hurst . It stars Siobhán McKenna as Pegeen, Gary Raymond as Christy, and Elspeth March as Widow Quin, with music by Seán Ó Riada . A 1994 TV movie adaptation was entitled Paris or Somewhere . Set in rural Saskatchewan, it starred Callum Keith Rennie as Christy Mahon, a young American farmer who arrives in town and claims to have killed his father . He charms the town with his story, particularly Peg (Molly Parker), the daughter of a local store owner and bootlegger . The screenplay was written by novelist Lee Gowan. A film adaptation was also made in 2016. Set in the USA and titled,' My Father Die', it was written and directed by Sean Brosnan . </P> <Ul> <Li> "...it's great luck and company I've won me in the end of time--two fine women fighting for the likes of me--till I'm thinking this night wasn't I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in the years gone by ."--Christy </Li> <Li> "Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen - makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law ."--Sara Tansey </Li> <Li> "It's well you know what call I have . It's well you know it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the lights shining sideways when the night is down, or going in strange places with a dog noising before you and a dog noising behind, or drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch, and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing from your heart ."--Christy </Li> <Li> "A daring fellow is the jewel of the world ..."--Michael Flaherty </Li> <Li> "...the blow of a loy, have taught me that there's a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed ."--Pegeen Mike </Li> <Li> "You've turned me a likely gaffer in the end of all, the way I'll go romancing through a romping lifetime, from this hour to the dawning of the Judgment Day ."--Christy </Li> <Li> "Oh my grief, I've lost him surely . I've lost the only Playboy of the Western World ."--Pegeen Mike </Li> </Ul> <Li> "...it's great luck and company I've won me in the end of time--two fine women fighting for the likes of me--till I'm thinking this night wasn't I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in the years gone by ."--Christy </Li> <Li> "Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen - makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law ."--Sara Tansey </Li>

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