Wednesday, 30 January 2013

How Green was my Ireland


The Quiet Man (1952)

Directed by John Ford this film based on a short story stars John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Barry Fitzgerald. A man who left Ireland as a boy returns home to the village he was born in and falls in love with a fiery young woman.

As with any John Ford picture this film has it's fair share of nice landscape shots but this time Ireland provides the back drop rather than America. The plot of this film is not much to write home about and the story provides a somewhat idealised version Ireland that likely never existed. This was one of the first films made in Technicolor and some of the image quality is not the greatest but is not bad enough to inhibit watching the film.

3/5

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