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Summary: Wayne & O'Hara at their best. This a magical classic film!
Review: John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara provide with their best chemistry in this "Irish" John Ford classic film.The DVD is remastered and the colors are full. This film is skillfully cast with all familiar faces. A nice story of a Yank (Wayne) who returns to his roots in Ireland to meet a beautiful spinster girl (O'Hara) while trying to be accepted by a not so friendly neighbor. John Wayne pulls this comedy, love story brillantly do to his & Maureen O'Hara larger than life personalities & chemistry. The climax of this 2 hour classic is the 8 minute tradtional John Wayne fist fight over Mary Kate (o'Hara). This is a classic movie to be enjoyed over and over. Great value and fun to watch.
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Summary: What movie offers more than this one?
Review: This movie really offers a little bit of everything, tied together in style into a magnificent cinematic package by one of the greatest directors who ever lived. It gives you one of the greatest screen couples ever, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara; it gives you unquestionably the greatest screen slugfest ever, between Wayne and Victor McLaglen; it gives you unforgettable performances by the premier members of the John Ford Stock Company, including Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond and Mildred Natwick; it gives you exquisite color photography of the Irish countryside, so that everyone who sees this movie will want to arise and go to Innisfree. Another thing it gives you, which most people don't credit it for, is the subtlety of the interrelationships between the characters. John Ford learned something from his countryman Oscar Wilde in presenting a comedy: the characters never learn a great many important secrets about each other, and never fully understand each other, but manage to reconcile anyway in the end. This gives the film a blessed grounding in reality that carries its moments of fantasy and whimsy. The Quiet Man is far more influential than most people assume; if you don't believe me, just rent a double bill of this movie and Bergman's "Smiles of a Summer Night," which was made a few years after The Quiet Man. And also, there is something I must restate: THIS MOVIE HAS MAUREEN O'HARA. Wonderful, marvelous Maureen O'Hara, she of the flowing auburn tresses and fiery demeanor. What more can I say? Buy this video, and Erin go bragh.
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Summary: Wonderful Classic Fim by John Ford!
Review: In what was easily John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara's single best performances, the spellbinding story set in the midst of Ireland's breath-taking rural culture is a perpetual favorite film for me. Hardly a year goes by that I don't pull it down from the shelf to enjoy on a stormy day such as this to marvel over Miss O'Hara's astonishing beauty and the endless charm of the characters woven so memorably by Director John Ford. What is most surprising is Ford's sensitive and knowing handling of the cross-cultural misunderstandings that provide the grist of the comedy of well-intentioned errors that propel the star-crossed lovers throughout the breadth of the movie. We viewers are quickly caught up in all this sentimental nonsense as well, and seem content to wallow in the obvious silliness and contrived situations these misunderstanding throws into in the characters' way. Yet, for all the stereotypical and all-too romanticized treatments of both bucolic ignorance, on the one hand, and world-weary sophistication, on the other, one finally surrenders to a work of art unfolding on the celluloid screen, however unlikely or improbable. Like Ford's westerns, the characters on the screen represent cultural icons, and often act like such. Yet here we see much more openness, tenderness, and honest human emotion than in any of Ford/Wayne's other joint projects. As it is, when I remember the Duke, it is in the character in this movie that I think of him as having his finest and truest cinematic moments, acting like a twentieth century man forced by personality and circumstances into facing both his inner demons and his hopes for the future as captured in a dazzling and daunting redhead (O'Hara), a cinematic presence who was every inch his match. Nowhere else, not even in "Stagecoach" or "True Grit", is Wayne quite so good or quite so believable. Add this to some unforgettable characterization and the breath-taking beauty of a long-ago Irish landscape, and you have a classic film! As such, this is movie magic that I heartily recommend. Enjoy!
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Summary: John Wayne's greatest movie
Review: For those of us whose image of John Wayne is the man delivering one liners such as "You see them Indians across the hill, they ain't dressed for Halloween," be prepared for a shock. In this epic movie about an American boxer who kills a man in the ring and goes to Ireland to find himself, Wayne delivers one of the great performances ever seen, displaying an astonishing range of emotion and acting ability as, despite his vow to renounce violence, he is inevitably forced to fight for his bride, the ravishing Maureen O'Hara, whose brother opposes her marriage and refuses to give her her inheritance. Magnificent acting by all involved. The fight scene between Wayne and Victor McLaglin and their ensuing reconciliation is sheer genius, and the movie also has wonderful moments of comedy provided by the great Barrie Fitzgerald. I put this one in my all time top ten, and I am sure you will too.
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Summary: A Wonderful Watch!
Review: There's little I can add to what others have said about The Quiet Man. It is a stunning movie that can be enjoyed over and over again! The DVD presentation is fabulous and the addition of Leonard Maltin's "Making Of..." rounds out the presentation. Strange thing though, even though the box says that theatrical trailers are included, they aren't! I would have liked to have seen them, but oh well. If they'd been on the disk it would have earned one more star.
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Summary: One of the all time classics
Review: This is by far one of my favorite movies. It is one of John Wayne's best movies and as always he is great with Maureen O'HaraThe DVD is great in that I saw colors I never saw in the VHS and the xtras like the making of the movie gave me info and insight that I never had before.
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Summary: No Blarney Here!
Review: Ahhh... this is one of my most favorite movies! I must admit to being a diehard romantic comedy fan -- and this is one at it's best! Sure there is a scene that may be startling to see by todays standards (The Duke dragging his woman home by her hair) but don't let that sway you from watching this classic film! It's a rollicking, frollicking good-ol' time! And it has something for everyone! From the fiery-tempered Kate (O'Hara) who wants nothing to do with the ex-boxer (Wayne); to the love that develops between them; to the rip roarin' no-holds-barred fistfight between the boxer and Kate's brother! This is a wonderful film by John Ford and his love of Ireland comes shining through in this masterpiece. Everytime I watch this show, I get so swept away in the beauty of the country that I put on my KISS ME I'M IRISH pin (even though I'm not even a little bit Irish). Pop some popcorn and curl up in front of this movie for a good time!
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Summary: Worse Than a Postcard
Review: John Ford, the mythical Irishman, finally had an opportunity to make a film in Ireland. Then he made what is probably the most ridiculous mis-representations of Ireland on film. For anyone who is Irish-American, and who actually knows anything about Ireland, Ford's film is a painful travesty of all things Irish. And yet every St. Patrick's Day, this awful movie is held up as some sort of representation.... There went the luck of the Irish. Thanks to that old-fogey hack John Ford. "Give Ireland back to the Irish," or so goes the old rebel song....
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Summary: John Ford's gentle and loving salute to Ireland.......
Review: From all reports "The Quiet Man" was a very personal and passionate undertaking from director John Ford, and his company of players (most of Irish ancestry)....and what sweet fruit their passion bore... This is a film of such warmth, tenderness, humour and beauty that it just sparkles from beginning to end. Irish-born, American boxer Sean Thornton (John Wayne) returns to his place of birth after accidently killing another man in the ring. Seeking to find peace and happiness in the lush green country side, Sean is enraptured with the fiery Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O'Hara in a wonderful performance) but incurs the wrath of her bully of a brother Red Will Danaher (Victor McLaglen) because of Thornton's purchase of local land. Failing to abide by the customs of Irish courtship as advised by resident matchmaker Michaleen Flynn (Barry Fitzgerald) and Father Peter Lonergan (Ward Bond)...it's not long before the whole county is in a spin about this big Yank in their midst !! Amidst the lopsided courtship and Red Will's refusal to pay the dowry, Thornton & Danaher square off in what must be the most entertaining and longest on screen fights in cinema history...much to the amusement of the entire town that turned out to watch !! "The Quiet Man" is such a wonderfully enchanting film, that it is as enjoyable for all ages today, as it was nearly 50 years ago. Truly, a film for those young at heart and those who can appreciate such a warm hearted and lovingly prepared ode to the magic of Ireland.
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Summary: MAUREENS THE BEST
Review: IM 25 YRS. OLD AND BY FAR THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER MADE. I JUST LOVE MAUREEN OHARA AND JOHN WAYNE TOGETHER, THEY REALLY CLICKED. I ALREADY OWN EVERY MOVIE WITH THEM PAIRED TOGETHER, MY FAVORITE IS MCCLINTOCK. I WISH I COULD TELL HER HOW MUCH I ADMIRE HER BUT SHE MOVED ALL HER SITES ........SO IF BY ANY WAY THIS CAN GET TO HER ...YOUR ONE OF THE BEST.........
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