The Quiet Man (1952)
- Directed by
- John Ford
- Genre
- drama film, romantic comedy, boxing film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h 09m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 616 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An American boxer returns to his ancestral home in rural Ireland. He falls in love with a fiery local woman but must overcome her stubborn brother to win her hand.
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What happens
The Quiet Man is a 1952 American romantic comedy drama film directed and produced by John Ford, and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Shields and Ward Bond. The screenplay by Frank S. Nugent was loosely based on a 1933 Saturday Evening Post short story of the same name by Irish author Maurice Walsh, later published as part of a collection titled The Green Rushes. The film features Winton Hoch's lush photography of the Irish countryside and a long, climactic, semi-comic fist fight. The film was an official selection of the 1952 Venice Film Festival. John Ford won the Academy Award for Best Director, his record fourth, and Winton Hoch won for Best Cinematography. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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