The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Ford
Screenplay byFrank S. Nugent
Based on”The Quiet Man”
(1933 short story)
by Maurice Walsh
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyWinton C. Hoch
Edited byJack Murray
Music byVictor Young
Production
companies
Distributed byRepublic Pictures
Release dates
  • June 6, 1952
    • (London and Dublin)[1]
  • August 21, 1952
    • (New York)
Running time
129 minutes
CountryUnited States[2]
LanguagesEnglish
Irish
Budget$1.75 million
Box office$3.8 million (rentals)[3]
Sean Thornton (John Wayne) and Squire Danaher (Victor McLaglen) aggressively shake hands, testing each other's strength.

The Quiet Man is a 1952 American[2] romantic comedy-drama film directed and produced by John Ford, and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, and Ward Bond. The screenplay by Frank S. Nugent was 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.

The film was an official selection of the 1952 Venice Film Festival. John Ford won the Academy Award for Best Director, his fourth, and Winton Hoch won for Best Cinematography. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[4][5][6]

  1. ^ "The Quiet Man - Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved June 21, 2018 – via AFI.com.
  2. ^ a b "The Quiet Man (1952)". BFI. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
  3. ^ "Top 20 Films of 1952 by Domestic Revenue". boxofficereport.com. Archived from the original on June 15, 2008.
  4. ^ "Library of Congress announces 2013 National Film Registry selections". The Washington Post (Press release). December 18, 2013. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  5. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". loc.gov. Washington, DC: National Film Preservation Board, Library of Congress. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  6. ^ "Cinema with the Right Stuff Marks 2013 National Film Registry". loc.gov. Washington, DC: National Film Preservation Board, Library of Congress. Retrieved May 8, 2020.