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Bookmark this pageThe Quiet Man (1952)
Director: John Ford
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From Time Out Film Guide
Ford's flamboyantly Oirish romantic comedy hides a few tough ironies deep in its mistily nostalgic recreation of an exile's dream. But the illusion/reality theme underlying immigrant boxer Wayne's return from America to County Galway - there to become involved in a Taming of the Shrew courtship of flame-haired O'Hara, and a marathon donnybrook with her truculent, dowry-withholding brother McLaglen - is soon swamped within a vibrant community of stage-Irish 'types'. Ford once described it gnomically as 'the sexiest picture ever made'.Author: PT
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- Joe Johnson said...
- Posted on Jul 09 2009 03:56 County Galway? It was County Mayo... Please at least get your facts right.
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- Thornton said...
- Posted on Aug 11 2008 13:51 This is a perfect movie. Best film ever done. If you can´t see that, you´ve got a problem.
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Cast & crew
Director: John Ford
Producer: John Ford, Merian C Cooper
Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, Mildred Natwick, Arthur Shields, Ward Bond, Jack MacGowran full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 129 mins
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