Advantages: Good story, some good acting, nice scenery Disadvantages: Very bad painted backdrops!
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John Wayne plays the role of Sean Thornton, he was born n Ireland but lived his life in America where he was a boxer. He has decided that he would move back to Ireland to the town where he was born as he has now ended his career after he killed a man in the ring. When he arrives in town he finds things are very different to his way of life in America and after some persuasion he persuades an old lady to sell him an old cottage and land where ... ...as he wanted to buy the land but was never sold it. Sean meets a beautiful lady called Mary Kate and he falls for her the only problem being she is the sister of his now rival Will and as the town is very old fashioned Sean has tog et the permission of Will to court her. With the help of the drunk Michaeleen, the town marriage broker and taxi driver and all round drunk he tries to get Will to change his mind but when he point blank refuses Sean gives ...
sewbizzie 04.07.2009
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Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. John Wayne plays an American boxer who ... more
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...
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Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. John Wayne plays an American boxer who ... more
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...
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John Ford's The Quiet Man celebrates one of Hollywood's most romantic and enduring epics. ... more
The first American feature to be filmed in Ireland's picturesque countryside Ford richly imbued this masterpiece with his love of Ireland and its people. Sean T...
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