Review of The Quiet Man (1952) by John P — 04 Apr 2008
John Wayne in love?
Duking (sorry!) it out with a hot-.
Tempered Irish lass? Clinching in a passionate (and forbidden).
Embrace during a wild storm?
Dragging the love of his life through.
The heather???
Man, this is a "chick flick" a guy could get into! Seriously, this is one of three.
Films I recommend for required St. Patrick's Day viewing (WAKING NED DEVINE and DARBY O'GILL & THE LITTLE PEOPLE being the other twa). Directed by John Ford, THE QUIET MAN is a lush.
Technicolour paean to an Ireland that probably exists only in our Irish soul.
John Wayne (romantically playing against genre and proving that he CAN.
Act - and react) is boxer Sean Thornton, returned to Ireland to claim his birthright (but also carrying a dark.
Secret). Maureen O'Hara plays Mary Kate Danaher: fey, with a fiery temper to.
Match her crimson hair; she matches Wayne scene for scene.
Character actors from the Ford-Wayne.
Films abound; but it is Barry Fitzgerald.
As the twinkling-eyed diminutive match-maker who steals the picture.
Two great climaxes: Sean dragging the.
Rebellious Mary Kate home five miles.
Across the emerald countryside; and a.
Ten-minute on again/off again comedic fight between Wayne and "Red" Will.
Danaher (Victor McLaglen, who was 65.
At the time!).
Best Lines: "Do you play tiddlywinks?".
"Impetuous! Homeric!" (which line.
was censored in America).
Wonderful Ford signature-farewell by.
The cast (we hate to leave Innisfree); and.
Exactly WHAT did O'Hara whisper to.
Wayne at the end? (Ford told her what to say, to get a "rise" out of her co-star;.
But she has never revealed what that.
Was.) Cinematic storytelling at its.
Finest (Ford won Best Director): under-.
Stated, memorably full of "heart.".
This review of The Quiet Man (1952) was written by John P on 04 Apr 2008.
The Quiet Man has generally received very positive reviews.
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