The Quiet Man [1952] [VHS] | ![The Quiet Man [1952] [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J94QZFH4L._SL160_.jpg) | Director: John Ford
Actors: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen
Studio: 4 Front Video
Category: Video
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 1766
Format: PAL
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 124 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
UPC: 780063805230
EAN: 5014138033989
ASIN: B00004CJTI
Theatrical Release Date: August 14, 1952
Release Date: October 1, 1999
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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
Amazon.co.uk Review
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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 The Quiet Man DVD August 28, 2010
Norman Shaw
THis is the 3rd DVD of the Quiet Man I have bought and they are all faulty. I have returned 2 and will be returning the third shortly.
The DVD run for about halfway then cut out and on restart jump all over the scenes.
I have checked my player and it works perfectly with other DVDs.
Can you please get the makers to do a test run on a new DVD and let me have it to stop this annoyance.
The reason I want this is because I saw the original in 1955 and went to Ashford Castle, which is shown throughout the film,for our honeymoon in 1955. My wife passed away in 2003 and the film means a great deal to me.
Have you it in Video?
Thanking you in anticipation.
Norman Shaw
 The Quiet Man (John Wayne) June 4, 2010
M. Little (Scotland)
The Classics are the best, still funny after all this time, they could never re-make this movie, I love the Irish humour it never fails in any movie, I'll certainly look out for more classic movies on Amazon, keep up the good work, fan for ever.
Philosophy and culture February 22, 2010
Guillaume de Lavigne (Greece)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This film represents something very special to me. I've seen it the first time many years ago and it has imprinted an everlasting impression upon me. I wanted it, but living abroad, I couldn't find it easily. I have it at last and enjoyed viewing it, although every scene is written in my memory. My wife doesn't understand what I see in it and she doesn't like it at all.
The history is very simple and common: an American comes back to Ireland where he was born, meets a pretty woman, the wonderful Maureen O'Hara and marries her in spite of her brother's opposition. Everything ends well after an epic fight. That's it.
No, that's not it. See the magnificent Irish views, the rough and simple people, their language, their customs, their beers, their shillelagh and blackthorn sticks, their magnificent carts. A philosophy of live: living soundly and simply, roughly too and enjoying everything the day has to give. Back to yesterday, when live was hard, but pleasant.
blooming brilliant! February 20, 2010
Blossom (Westcliff -on- Sea)
We bought this film for my dad to go with the book we got. He rang and told me that he had never seen the movie before and it lasted 2 hours and he did not move in all that time. I asked him to bring it with him when he visits in march as we would like to see it.
He laughed and said he was sure he would be watching it again before then. He was so pleased with it.
 Fun, Fights and Good Humour on the Emerald Isle. February 4, 2010
Bob Salter (Wiltshire, England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Okay, okay Ed I give in! I know you don't think much of some of the films I review, so here's one that I just know you are going to like. That old sentimental favourite of yours "The Quiet Man". Tis a film that has been accused of offering a very rose tinted view of the Emerald Isle, aimed at American audiences. It has been described as a "Brigadoon" vision of Ireland, which is hard to dispute. The largely American cast speak in a strangely twee Oirish dialect, perhaps only used by the leprechauns. Do they really use "top o the morning" and "begorrah". John Wayne was mercifully allowed to speak in his own very distinctive uniquely American accent. No repeat of his famous lines from the crucifixion scene in George Stevens "The Greatest Story Ever Told"(65), where in that same distinctive voice as the Roman centurion, he gave us those immortal lines, "Surely this man was the son of God". The Irish landscape is impossibly beautiful, almost as if Disney animators have painted all the rural scenes. But no, it was actually filmed around the village of Cong, in Connemara, which happens to be impossibly beautiful. Today you can worship at the shrine of "The Quiet Man Cottage museum", such is the impact the film has had on the area. All the people are horribly nice in the film, even the supposed villains. Well actually all the people I met holidaying on the west coast of Ireland were incredibly nice and welcoming! In short, there is a lot I should dislike about this film, but like a magpie drawn to pretty sparkly things, I happen to like it. Will my street cred take another nose dive?
The film is based on a short story by Irish author Maurice Walsh, who was popular during the period between the two world wars. He was employed as an excise officer in the Scottish highlands, as a consequence of which many of his books are set in Scotland and have Irish characters. Typical of this is "The small Dark Man", a book that I have read, and which is full of fun, fights and good humour. The sort of material that was ideal for the rollicking Irish American humour of director John Ford. So off Ford went with his stock company to Ireland, to give it the same makeover as he had done earlier to Wales with "How Green Was my Valley", and according to most accounts of the time they all had a wonderful time. They also happened to make a very enjoyable family film, and a long time favourite of many people. The film concerns John Wayne as Sean Thornton an ex Irish American prize fighter come to Ireland to forget the past and claim his old ancestral home, "White o the Mornin". Thornton has killed a man in a fight and is no longer able to use his fists to make a living. Of course the film requires him to do just that! Thornton falls in love with a feisty flame haired Irish colleen Mary Kate Daneher, played with gusto by Maureen O'Hara. But O'Hara comes with a rather difficult family including a hulking giant played by Victor Mclaglen, in perhaps his most famous screen role. We head to the films legendary climax with what must surely be the longest fight in screen history. Wayne's treatment of O'Hara is not what one could describe as gentlemanly. But as a proud male I would like to say....... Well no, perhaps we won't go there!
The cast of the film is full of Irish American actors so beloved of Ford. I don't doubt that they all had a good time and that the Guinness was given suitable tasting sessions. It is obvious that the cast are having fun and it is infectious. The viewer is inevitably drawn into the fun. The acting is not of an oscar winning standard, but it is right for the films mood. Ford won his fourth academy award as best director for his efforts. Winton Hoch the cinematographer also won an award for the extremely lush and evocative photography. Perhaps his magnificent efforts in the later epic "The Searchers"(56), would have been more deserving. The film takes Wayne away from his usual territory and it is certainly refreshing for that. The Duke does a pretty decent job in the lead role. The films idyllic fairy tale vision of Ireland is very fetching, and has a certain Shangri La feel to it. Come to think of it none of those people have aged on celluloid. It remains as fresh as the day it was made. I found the colours on my DVD were a vast improvement on the old VHS. No complaints. I can't quite bring myself to give five stars, but it comes close. I can't let sentiment come before truth, now can I? Highly recommended.
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