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The quiet man [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: OF483 | Olive FilmsPublication details: [St. Charles, Ill.] : Olive Films, [2013]Edition: 60th anniversary special edDescription: 1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)Uniform titles:
  • Quiet man (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .Q54 2013
Contents:
Opening -- Mary Kate -- Friend to everyone, but one -- First visitor -- Matchmaker, matchmaker -- Race for bonnets -- The courting -- Happily ever after? -- The morning after -- On the town -- She loves him, she leaves him -- Visit from the in-laws.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Winton C. Hoch ; editor, Jack Murray ; music, Victor Young.
Awards:
  • Academy Award for best director and cinematography.
Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick, Francis Ford, Eileen Crowe, May Craig, Arthur Shields, Charles Fitzsimons.Summary: John Ford's The Quiet Man celebrates one of Hollywood's most romantic and enduring epics. The first American feature to be filmed in Ireland's picturesque countryside, Ford richly imbued this masterpiece with his love of Ireland and its people. Sean Thornton is an American boxer who swears off fighting after he accidentally kills an opponent in the ring. Returning to the Irish town of his youth, he finds happiness when he falls in love with the fiery Mary Kate.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Barcode
VID VID Chamberlin Free Public Library Video DVD QUI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34517000416712

From the story by Maurice Walsh.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1952.

DVD release date: Jan. 22, 2013.

Special feature: Making of the Quiet man / written and hosted by Leonard Maltin (1992, 28 min.).

Opening -- Mary Kate -- Friend to everyone, but one -- First visitor -- Matchmaker, matchmaker -- Race for bonnets -- The courting -- Happily ever after? -- The morning after -- On the town -- She loves him, she leaves him -- Visit from the in-laws.

Director of photography, Winton C. Hoch ; editor, Jack Murray ; music, Victor Young.

John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick, Francis Ford, Eileen Crowe, May Craig, Arthur Shields, Charles Fitzsimons.

John Ford's The Quiet Man celebrates one of Hollywood's most romantic and enduring epics. The first American feature to be filmed in Ireland's picturesque countryside, Ford richly imbued this masterpiece with his love of Ireland and its people. Sean Thornton is an American boxer who swears off fighting after he accidentally kills an opponent in the ring. Returning to the Irish town of his youth, he finds happiness when he falls in love with the fiery Mary Kate.

Rating: Not rated.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; fullscreen (1.37:1) presentation.

Academy Award for best director and cinematography.

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