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

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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