The Quiet Man is a 1952 romantic comedy-drama film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Set in the Irish countryside, the film tells the story of Sean Thornton, an American boxer who returns to his hometown of Inisfree to reclaim his
The Quiet Man is a 1952 American romantic comedy drama film directed and produced by John Ford, and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Shields and Ward Bond. The screenplay by Frank S. Nugent was loosely based on a 1933 Saturday Evening Post short story of the same name by Irish author Maurice Walsh, later published as part of a collection titled The Green Rushes. The film features Winton Hoch's lush photography of the Irish countryside and a long, climactic, semi-comic fist fight.