Rent The Quiet Man (1952)
3.7 of 5 from 107 ratings
2h 9min
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- Synopsis:
Set in the 1920s, "The Quiet Man" stars John Wayne as Sean Thornton, an Irish-born American who has travelled to his birthplace of Inisfree to lay claim to his family farm. Although warmly embraced by the denizens of the village, Thornton's outsider status is thrown into relief when the abrasive landowner Squire Will Danahan (Victor McLaglen) objects both to the turnover of the land, and to the handing over of his sister Mary Kate's (Maureen O'Hara) dowry to the man whose community stature now threatens to show up his own. What follows is a confrontation with custom and with the personal past, all before an unforgettable extended brawl sprawing the entire countryside whereupon nothing less hinges than the peace of Inisfree itself. - Actors:
- John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick, Francis Ford, Eileen Crowe, May Craig, Arthur Shields, Charles B. Fitzsimons, James O'Hara, Sean McClory, Jack MacGowran, Joseph O'Dea, Eric Gorman, Kevin Lawless, Paddy O'Donnell, Frank Baker, Tony Canzoneri
- Directors:
- John Ford
- Producers:
- John Ford, Merian C. Cooper
- Writers:
- Frank S. Nugent, Maurice Walsh, John Ford
- Others:
- Charles Thompson, Daniel J. Bloomberg, Winton C. Hoch, Archie Stout, Frank Hotaling, John McCarthy Jr.
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Film Weddings: Part 3, Acting Up: British Actors at the Oscars, All the Twos: 1902-62, Award Winners, Films & TV by topic, Ireland At the Oscars, Memory Lane: Films Set in 1920s, Oscar Nominations Competition 2024, Oscar's Two-Time Club, Oscars: Winners & Losers, The Cinema Paradiso Kissing Montage, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Films By Year, Top 10 Films of 1959, Top 10 Screen Kisses (1896-1979), Top 100 AFI Passions, Top Films
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 30/11/2015
- Run Time:
- 129 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- New and exclusive video essay on the film by Ford expert and scholar Tag Gallagher
- The Making of The Quiet Man documentary
- Original Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews (1) of The Quiet Man
A John Ford masterpiece - The Quiet Man review by NP
It's not been helpful for John Ford's legacy that many of his major films - like The Quiet Man - conceal their profound and ambivalent ruminations on tradition and culture and tolerance beneath such seemingly whimsical surfaces: it means that many inattentive modern viewers will come to his films unprepared for their manifold complexities and likely to dismiss them out of hand as little more than quaint and antiquated trifles.
Just one thing that leapt out at me on a first viewing is that the romance between Wayne and O'Hara must be one of the richest and strangest ever put onscreen: they're equal parts lovers, dupes, fighters and tormentors - both strong-willed and myopic yet sympathetic fools who goad and misunderstand and love each other, and can't see past their own cherished ideas to conceive of their partner's full subjectivity, until, blissfully, they finally do, in the movie's magnificent extended climax.
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