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The Quiet Man (Collector's Edition) 
Actors : John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Leonard Maltin, Michael Wayne, Toni Wayne
Director : John Ford
Studio : Republic Pictures
by Republic Pictures
Brand : Lions Gate
Release Date : 2002-10-22
Publisher : Republic Pictures
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN : 0017153125283
UPC : 017153125283
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 337 reviews)
List Price : $14.98
Our Price : $6.87
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When an American prize-fighter kills a man in the ring, he returns to the Irish village where he was born to find peace and there he meets and falls i |
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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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Irresistably Romantic Gaelic Culture Clash |
This is my personal favorite among all John Ford's films. Presenting what is probably a rather romanticized image of an Ireland that I suspect never existed even 100 years ago, the film's visual beauty, interesting romantic dilemma, and wonderful performances, is nevertheless worth every minute of its slightly longish running time. John Wayne is not one of my favorite actors and I can only go so far on the red-haired, chisel-boned beauty of the admirably upholstered Maureen O'Hara. However, as the conflicted, heartsore, regretful boxer Sean Thornton, who returns to his mother's natal village in Ireland, Innisfree, to find some peace and healing, Wayne strikes a nice balance between machismo and vulnerability, a duality he was surprisingly adept at in other films, as well. O'Hara, as Mary Kate Danagher, the (sorry, there is no other word for it) fiery neighbor with whom Sean falls in love, provides for Wayne what can only be called a match made in Heaven: physically, temperamentally, intellectually, and spiritually - it is only culturally that Sean and Mary Kate find themselves at loggerheads.
Sean travels to Innisfree to find solace after a terrible experience in the boxing ring. He began his life in Pittsburgh, where his mother emigrated, and spent his youth in the city's legendary steel mills, a purgatory from which his boxing talent eventually freed him. But all his young life his mother filled Sean's mind with the beauty and peace of Innisfree and the pretty cottage she was born in, White O'Morn. Now wealthy from his former boxing career, but with a deadly secret heavy on his heart, Sean returns to his mother's village to buy the family cottage, rediscover his roots, and achieve reconciliation with his own past.
Unfortunately, his near neighbor, Red Will Danagher (the formidable Victor MacLaglen in all his ham-fisted glory), also wants White O'Morn, as well as its owner, the genteel Widow Tulane, whose land lies so neatly next to his. When Sean outbids Will for the cottage and its land, Danagher's volcanic ire fastens implacably on the Yank newcomer.
Mary Kate is Will's younger sister, who lives with and keeps house for him, and, unfortunately, it is Mary Kate who Sean spots as he first arrives in Inisfree, barefoot in the lush green grass as she tends her brother's flock of sheep, red hair blowing in the wind. For Sean, it is love at first sight.
But this is Ireland, and Sean soon finds that in order to win Mary Kate, he must first conquer her irascible brother's hostility - and here Sean runs into what, to him, are incomprehensible barriers to what he wants: the need for Will's consent if Mary Kate is to marry, the symbolic importance of a girl's dowry as she leaves her family home to one of her own, the necessity for a local matchmaker to facilitate proceedings. The small village's seemingly immutable mating customs puzzle and infuriate Sean, and only slowly does he come to understand what Mary Kate means when she says that if he doesn't have her dowry, he doesn't have any real bit of her, and that she is "still the servant I have always been." Reluctant as Sean is to use his fists again for what he thinks of contemptuously as "only money", he eventually realizes that he will have to come to terms with his last fighting experience or lose any chance at happiness with Mary Kate.
How Sean and Mary Kate and Red Will and the Widow Tulane, as well as a delightful supporting cast of characters (e.g., Barry Fitzgerald as the matchmaker and Ward Bond as the powerful village priest) find their way through this romantic and cultural tangle makes for a lovely, well-written, beautifully played two hours. The exploration of different cultural expectations and misunderstandings is gentle and the custom of the dowry, and what it means to a woman in such a culture freeing herself from girlhood, provokes thought. The Quiet Man is an unusual film, very much in a class by itself and showing all Ford's talent for marshalling exactly the right people in the right roles.
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Something different from John Wayne |
John Wayne started out with Stagecoach and ended his career with motion pictures like True Grit. He is probably most strongly identified with westerns, and possibly with various war pictures made in between, but he also made this motion picture along the way. It is a delightful motion picture about a man escaping from his past which he tried to keep secret, but finds himself wrapped into Irish customs to win the woman he loves. His brother-in-law to be wants to fight him for the dowry.
There were good performances all the way around, and some Irish scenery along the way. It could give you an urge to move back to the Old Sod.
In regard to the negative reviews, people should be careful of the source and the version. There are a lot of cheap knockoffs for popular motion pictures, many manufactured overseas. Premier-shopping, unfortunately, lumps all the reviews together. |
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The Best Print For This Movie Is On VHS!!! |
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Hi,unfortunately as you can see by most of the reviews here,there is no version of this classic on DVD that is worth buying.they all look and sound absolutely terrible.and it may be a long wait for a true re-master.however,if you still have a nice VCR available to you than I've got good news.there is one and i mean only one version available on VHS that truly looks wonderful,much better than the DVD versions.no its not razor sharp like DVDs are soppose to look,but it sounds excellent,and looks great!the technicolor is very colorful.it seems to have been mastered from a very good master print.its 10 times better than all other versions on VHS or DVD.ITS CALLED THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION.it came out in 1992 by republic pictures home video.it comes with an original reproduction of the movie theater lobby card also.one word of caution,and listen up and take note because this REALLY MATTERS.the 40th anniversary edition VHS came out in two different speeds,the Sp mode[superior play]and ep mode[extended play].when talking to the various sellers of this video be sure to ask them if the video has a little sticker on the slipcase that says [duplicated in ep mode]if it has that sticker DO NOT BUY!extended play or ep mode is not the high quality version.you will know its the Sp mode version [superior play]because there wont be a sticker saying duplicated in ep mode.also,spend the extra money and get a new factory sealed copy if you can or you risk not getting the lobby card that comes with the set.if your forced to buy used ask seller if the card is still with the set.the lobby card is very nice and a true color reproduction of the original.one word of caution,if you have a high definition TV than forget about buying this.VHS looks terrible on HD tvs no matter how good the VHS is.if you still have a standard definition TV or an earlier LCD non-hd TV you'll be fine.its always good to keep a standard definition tv around so you can still watch your VHS tapes in nice image quality.this VHS also includes the making of the quiet man at the end of the movie,and the original trailer.i still have all my VHS movies.about 1000 of them,and i still enjoy them very much.i have collected no less than 10 high quality VCRs over the past few years to insure i can continue enjoying my collection.there's something fun about watching VHS,it may not always be the crisp picture you get from DVDs but it has a more real feel to it if that makes any sense.i also have tons and tons of DVDs but i get more of a kick out of my VHS for some reason.its rather nostalgic,maybe that's why?anyway i hope I've helped out someone,and go get your copy of the 40Th anniversary.they are here on amazon.com and also try EBAY.the easiest way to find it on amazon.com is to go to the HOME PAGE of amazon.com and type in the search window THE QUIET MAN 40th ANNIVERSARY VHS.then you will get the full list of all versions.mike |
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A must for Blu-Ray |
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I'm a collector of movies. My one and only hobby is movies. I've been collecting since 1979 when the first VHS players came out. "The Quiet Man" was the first movie i purchased and I think it cost about $80 at the time. I've seen this movie at least 50 times since. The first time was when I was 10 and my mother made me watch it on TV. I knew then that I saw the greatest movie ever made. since then I've purchased 3 copies and the one that was discussed above this is every bit as dissapointing as they said. If this does not come to Blu-Ray it will be one of the biggest blunders of moviedom. I own over 1000 movies and "The Quiet Man" shines above them all. |
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Classic |
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This is a wonderful movie for the 40 and above who can truly appreciate the true actors of our time!! |
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