The Quiet Man

The winner is a film by director John Ford, who was shot in 1952 and " The Taming of the Shrew " is based on William Shakespeare. It is based on the story The Silent Man ( The Quiet Man) by Maurice Walsh. The film was shot mainly in and around Cong in County Mayo. In Germany the film was also shown under the title The cat with the red hair.

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Action

Former boxing champion Sean Thornton returns after a fight in which his opponent died by him by an unfortunate blow, to his hometown in Ireland back. Each fist fight he is now out of the way. When buying back his parents' house by the widow Tillane he meets on his parental property also interested landowner Will Danaher know and used it as the enemy. "Red" Will makes for years hope for the widow Tillane which is quite interested in it, put off by his crudeness, however. Thornton takes Will's sister Mary Kate Danaher wife.

As Will her but her dowry do not want to pay and Sean does not want to fight with him about Mary refused her husband. Sean applies in the village therefore commonly referred to as " washcloth " because no one except the priest knows the real background. After some time, it is Sean too much, and he grabs Mary Kate and Will throws it with the remark that there was no marriage came about, his feet.

Mary is stunned, and as Red Will throws the dowry before Sean on the floor, this picks it up and throws it wordlessly into the fire hole of a steam engine, the throttle valve by Mary Kate is kept open.

In a remarkable fist fight, the two rivals finally fight together, and Will gets to the conclusion nor the beloved widow Tillane.

Awards

Oscar 1953

  • Oscar in the category Best Director to John Ford
  • Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Color) at Winton C. Hoch and Archie Stout
  • Nomination in the category Best Film for producer John Ford and Merian C. Cooper
  • Nomination in the category Best Supporting Actor for Victor McLaglen
  • Nomination in the category Best Art Direction (Color) for Frank Hotaling, John McCarthy Jr. and Charles S. Thompson
  • Nomination in the category Best Sound for Daniel J. Bloomberg
  • Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Frank S. Nugent

Golden Globe Award 1953

  • Nomination for Best Director for John Ford
  • Nomination for Best Film Score for Victor Young

Venice Film Festival 1952

  • International award for John Ford
  • OCIC Award for John Ford
  • Nominated for the Golden Lion for John Ford

More awards

  • DGA Award in 1953 for exceptional performance director John Ford and Wingate Smith
  • WGA Award in 1953 for Best Writing ( Comedy ) Frank S. Nugent
  • NBR Award in 1952 for Best Movie

Reviews

" Excellent staged crudely hilarious comedy from the Irish village environment, the action model of Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew 'delivered. "

"With this very atmospheric character comedy with a grumpy Wayne, captivating dialogue wit and a lively staging successful director John Ford one of the best films of all time. Rightly two Oscars were awarded: for directing and cinematography (High / Stout ). A film where everything is right! "

" Original colorful comedy about oddballs and stubborn in nature and real-life world of an Irish village. [ ... ] Mostly worth seeing. "

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