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Film · 1952 · Romantic drama
The Quiet Man
Directed by John Ford
1952
★ 5.6 editorial score
Ford spent twenty years trying to make it and shot Ireland in Technicolor so green it looks invented: an American boxer goes home to Mayo and runs straight into everyone else's customs.
“It is not an involved tale that is being told. It is merely the story of Sean Thornton, who was born in Inis-free, went to Pittsburgh, where he became a steel-mill hand and a prize fighter and where he killed a man in the ring, a happenstance that drove him back to his birth-place seeking peace of mind and quiet.”
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