The Quiet Man
Screening on Film
Directed by John Ford.
With John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Victor McLaglen.
US, 1952, 35mm, color, 129 min.
With John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Victor McLaglen.
US, 1952, 35mm, color, 129 min.
John Ford in a buoyant mood, making this easygoing masterwork in his beloved green Ireland. Wayne plays a disillusioned boxer who comes to Ireland to get away from it all, and immediately gets smitten by Maureen O’Hara’s pre-Raphaelite beauty. He’s back in battle, as she will only marry him if he fights her blustery brother (Victor McLaglen) for her dowry. Luck of the Irish: Ford’s happiest ending is here. Usually, in his forty-five years in Hollywood, Ford stood tall with a tragic vision of life.
