The Quiet Man

TCM fan Terry Sullivan joins Ben Mankiewicz for an introduction and comments following The Quiet Man, 1952.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Quiet Man, 1952.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Quiet Man, 1952.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Quiet Man, 1952.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Quiet Man, 1952.

Dave Karger introduces The Quiet Man, 1952.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces The Quiet Man, 1952.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Quiet Man, 1952.

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Winton Hoch’s photography supports director John Ford’s expression of operatic passions in pastoral Ireland, as American Thornton (John Wayne, title character), enters the old family home he’s just bought, finding fiery Mary Kate (Maureen O’Hara) engaged, in The Quiet Man, 1952.

Michaeleen (Barry FitzGerald) conveys Thornton (John Wayne) to Innisfree, explaining to narrating Fr. Lonergan (Ward Bond) that the big American from Pittsburgh was born there, when Mary Kate (Maureen O’Hara) first appears, early in John Ford’s The Quiet Man, 1952.

TCM remembers the Irish-born perennial Hollywood star Maureen O'Hara, 1920-2015, with an all-day tribute on Friday, November 20th.

John Ford directs a vignette in the rural Irish pub, Ken Curtis leading the song, Ford’s brother Francis greeting John Wayne as the American Thornton who’s bought his boyhood home, but local land-owner Dannaher (Victor McLaglen) isn’t having any, Ward Bond the priest, in The Quiet Man, 1952.

John Ford’s Academy Award-winning direction opens with John Wayne arriving in an imaginary Irish town, Ward Bond narrating, Paddy O’Donnell, Web Overlander and Eric Gorman with greetings until Barry FitzGerald intervenes, in The Quiet Man, 1952, co-starring Maureen O’Hara.

Dannaher (Victor McLaglen) throws a tantrum, interrupting Michaeleen (Barry FitzGerald) and Thornton (John Wayne), who’s about to buy his old family home from widow Tillane (Mildred Natwick), though his sister Mary Kate (Maureen O’Hara) doesn’t object, in John Ford’s The Quiet Man, 1952.

John Wayne is an Irish-born ex-boxer who retires to Ireland and searches for the proper wife in John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952).