Juno and the Paycock (1929)

Dublin 1922. Middle age Jack Boyle and his best friend Joxer Daly are openly supportive at rallies of the anti-treaty side concerning the civil war, but are the first to run at the sign of any violence. Jack's young adult son Johnny Boyle suffers from shell shock in having lost the use of his right arm in battle. In addition, Jack feigns one injury after another, these his justifications for being unable to work this job or that job. As such, he sponges off others for beer and whiskey when he has no money of his own taken from the household breadwinner, his wife Juno. Their life has the potential to change when Jack and Juno's young adult daughter, Mary Boyle, who has long earned her own living, discovers from a local lawyer, Charles Bentsen, that Jack is coming into an inheritance, enough for the family to start anew and for Jack not having to work at least in the immediate future. But that anticipation of being on easy street may provide them with a false sense of that new life as real life happens around them.