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 The Quiet Man (DVD)
 The Quiet Man (DVD) ... 15 January, 2001 at Universal Pictures UK / Features of the DVD: PAL / Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. John Wayne plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald Isle, his native land. What he finds there is a fiery prospective spouse (Maureen O'Hara) and a country greener than any Ireland seen before or since--it's no surprise The Quiet Man won an Oscar for cinematography. It also won an Oscar for John Ford's direction, his fourth such award. The film was a deeply personal project for Ford (whose birth name was Sean Aloysius O'Fearna), and he lavished all of his affection for the Irish landscape and Irish people on this film. He also stages perhaps the greatest donnybrook in the history of movies, an epic fistfight between Wayne and the truculent Victor McLaglen--that's Ford's brother, Francis, as the elderly man on his deathbed who miraculously revives when he hears word of the dustup. Barry Fitzgerald, the original Irish elf, gets the movie's biggest laugh when he walks into the newlyweds' bedroom the morning after their wedding, and spots a broken bed. The look on his face says everything. The Quiet Man isn't the real Ireland, but as a delicious never-never land of Ford's imagination, it will do very nicely. --Robert HortonNewest Review: ... broker and taxi driver and all round drunk he tries to get Will to change his mind but when he point blank refuses Sean gives ... more ... up.
Will the townspeople be able to change Will's mind and will the two rivals ever make peace?
I was quiet impressed with this film as it is far from being a western or cowboy film. The storyline was very good and I did learn from it, the ways of the old fashioned dating experience was new to me and I did find it interesting how they had to ask permission to from the man of the house to date a lady and how they were not allowed to be on their own when courting. This did lead to some funny moments in the film.
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The Quiet Man [DVD] [1952]
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Read Reviews for The Quiet Man (DVD)
The Quiet Man (DVD): Shhhhhhhh, It's The Quiet Man! (889 words)
by - written on 09/07/09 (Very useful, 98 readings)
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As I have quite enjoyed John Wayne's film when he has not been plying a cowboy I was quite looking forward to seeing this, yes I cant believe t myself but I was looking forward to it!!!! John Wayne plays the role of Sean Thornton, he was born n Ireland but lived his life in America where he was a boxer. He has decided that he would move back to Ireland to the town where he was born as he has now ended his career after he killed a man in the ring. When he arrives in town he finds things are very different to his way of life in America and after some persuasion he persuades an old lady to sell him an old cottage and land where he was born and his ... Read the complete review
Dum tee dum tee dum tee diddle diddle (761 words)
by - written on 07/08/01 (Very useful, 275 readings)
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“Now, I'll begin at the beginnin'. A fine soft day in the spring it was when the train pulled into Castletown three hours late as usual, and himself got off. He didn't have the look of an American tourist at all about him. Not a camera on him. And what was worse, not even a fishing rod." These are the opening words spoken by Father Lonergan (Ward Bond), in John Ford’s classic film The Quiet Man. Filmed in 1952. It was nominated for seven Oscars, winning two, one of which was Fords fourth Oscar for best director, setting a record as yet unbroken. Filmed mostly in Ireland, it is the story of boxer Shaun Thornton (John ... Read the complete review
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