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John Wayne award-winning film shot in Ireland. Wayne plays an American boxer who moves to Ireland – the land of his birth, to live a quiet life after a tragedy in America. Cultures clash as Wayne tries to buy the land of birth and win the hand of a fiery temperature to match her red hair (Maureen O’Hara).
Have you been to the towns in the movie? How have they changed? Are the characters ones you recognize or can relate too?
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“The Quiet Man” is a 1952 feature film starring John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Victor McLachlen & Barry Fitzgerald. It’s the story of a retired American boxer who returns to his home village of Innisfree, Ireland, and the challenges/complications that follow. It’s a neat picture of a long-ago Ireland, including its attitudes towards women, marriage, small-town life and Americans.
