Dir: John Ford | US Drama 129’
Yet another reason why it remains impossible to treat the Academy Awards with any seriousness is that Alfred Hitchcock never won while fellow Catholic John Ford managed to receive it an incredible FOUR TIMES, the last time being for ‘The Quiet Man’, which was also nominated for – I kid you not – Best Picture.
Described by David Thomson as “an entertainment for an IRA club night”, the title ‘The Quiet Man’ has to be possibly one of the most misleading titles of all time, it being possibly one of the noisiest films ever made; consisting as it does of over two hours of almost non-stop drunken carousing and fisticuffs.
After spending most of his unhappy life in America, Sean Thornton arrives in the little Irish village of Inisfree to find the peace and paradise his mother used to talk about. The first thing to catch his eye (after the cottage where he was born) is the beautiful and fiery Mary Kate Danaher. @RichardChatten
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