The Quiet Man (Collector's Edition) | 
| Director: John Ford
Actors: John Wayne, Maureen O'hara, Leonard Maltin, Michael Wayne, Toni Wayne
Studio: Republic Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  295 reviews
Sales Rank: 417
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dvd, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 129 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: REPD12528D
UPC: 017153125283
EAN: 0017153125283
ASIN: B00006JMRD
Theatrical Release Date: August 14, 1952
Release Date: October 22, 2002
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Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. John Wayne plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald Isle, his native land. What he finds there is a fiery prospective spouse (Maureen O'Hara) and a country greener than any Ireland seen before or since--it's no surprise The Quiet Man won an Oscar for cinematography. It also won an Oscar for John Ford's direction, his fourth such award. The film was a deeply personal project for Ford (whose birth name was Sean Aloysius O'Fearna), and he lavished all of his affection for the Irish landscape and Irish people on this film. He also stages perhaps the greatest donnybrook in the history of movies, an epic fistfight between Wayne and the truculent Victor McLaglen--that's Ford's brother, Francis, as the elderly man on his deathbed who miraculously revives when he hears word of the dustup. Barry Fitzgerald, the original Irish elf, gets the movie's biggest laugh when he walks into the newlyweds' bedroom the morning after their wedding, and spots a broken bed. The look on his face says everything. The Quiet Man isn't the real Ireland, but as a delicious never-never land of Ford's imagination, it will do very nicely. --Robert Horton
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 John Waynes best July 4, 2009
Doc Dave (USA)
This is such an enyoyable movie if you haven't seen it then you are missing one of lifes movie treasures.
"Sir! Here's a good stick to beat the lovely lady." June 30, 2009
H. Bala (Carson - hey, we have an IKEA store! - CA USA)
For John Ford and John Wayne, los hombres mas machos, THE QUIET MAN is them showing their softer side. This movie is absolutely my favorite John Ford film and one of my top favorite films starring the Duke. I'm not even remotely Irish and yet I can't help but get all mushy and nostalgic whenever this airs on the screen.
You're in for a surprise if you've only ever seen John Wayne take on those tough, rough-n-tumble man of action roles in all those wild westerns, war pictures, and cop dramas. THE QUIET MAN features a more introspective, more reflective John Wayne. He plays laconic but friendly Irish-American Sean Thornton, come to the tiny Irish village of Innisfree to flee a haunted past and find a measure of peace. But peace and quiet are hard to come by, even in this bucolic ancestral home. Sean Thornton is instantly smitten with the fiery lass Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O'Hara), only to learn that winning her isn't at all a simple feat, what with the rigid local courtship customs and also that her brother is none other than that bullying and blustery landowner "Red" Will Danaher (Victor McLaglen). And "Red" Will Danaher thinks Thornton a coward and endlessly baits him, with Thornton reluctant to raise his fists. But when his continued passiveness threatens to lose him the respect of the community and of Mary Kate, it may just come down to Sean taking a stand, after all, and picking up them fists.
THE QUIET MAN is John Ford's big, corny valentine to his native Ireland, so it's not too surprising that we find ourselves in idealized sceneries, treated to picturesque cinematography and sentimental goings-on. THE QUIET MAN garnered Ford his fourth Oscar for directing, which must've been a huge "In Your Face!" to all the larger studios who gave the movie the fish eye. Instead, it was lowly "B" studio Republic Pictures which took a chance and bankrolled Ford's pet project, after, of course, first squeezing a little black & white western out of Wayne, O'Hara and Ford, so as to recoup whatever losses THE QUIET MAN might accrue. Well, not only did RIO GRANDE prove to be a financial success, but THE QUIET MAN, to the surprise of many, made a killing at the box office.
It's a delightful character study, enlivened by Ford's stock troop of actors, with Barry Fitzgerald and Ward Bond particular standouts as, respectively, the puckish matchmaker Michaleen Oge Flynn and Father Lonergan. The film is also a broad, whimsical comedy of manners which now and then gets upstaged by Wayne and O'Hara's tempestuous romance. Wayne's dashing Sean Thornton, by the way, should settle any doubts about whether the Duke can play meaty romantic leading roles. He and Maureen O'Hara ignite the screen.
And, of course, of course, it all culminates with a raucous, knock-down marathon brawl between Red Will Danaher and the finally fed-up Sean Thornton, to the rapture of the Innisfree community (who quickly begins placing bets). Before the donnybrook, though, one of the funniest moments in the film comes up, and never mind that it isn't too politically correct in this day and age. It's this: As Sean Thornton wrestles his departing Mary Kate off the train and then marches her all the long way home, an old woman emerges from the gathering onlookers and offers Sean a good-sized branch: "Sir! Here's a good stick to beat the lovely lady." Heh.
The Quiet Man June 28, 2009
DrGizmo2002 (Florida)
I believe this is one of the best romantic comedies ever made. The Duke and Maureen O'Hara really make this show no one could have done it better. This was another one of Amazons super bargains.
Gary & Charm
A Great Movie June 16, 2009
LW (VA)
We bought The Quiet Man Collector's Edition. The quality was excellent. The color was beautiful. The movie itself was very entertaining, though Maureen O'Hara was a bit too dramatic. This movie is well worth having.
A very Irish Ireland!! June 8, 2009
Beryl P. Wales (Sydney Australia)
When this was first released I used to go to every cinema that was showing it, so that I could keep on watching it. At that time my children were all very small. When my son recently said he didn't know the film I promptly sent for this copy so that he could view it. It has lovely characters, and all the things about Ireland that we imagine of it. I can thoroughly recommend it.
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