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The Quiet Man

Screening on Film
Directed by John Ford.
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.

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