Tonight it will be the Quiet Man

The Quiet Man is one of my favorite John Ford movies.

Maureen O'Hara (I) (1920–2015)

My wife and I watch it about every two to three months. We should have watched it last night instead of the FSU game. We enjoy the movie even more since we visited the village of Cong (Innishfree) and especially got to see the bridge. I have a photo I did of the bridge hanging here in the house.

I guess we'll never find out what John Ford had Maureen O'hara whisper in the Duke's ear at the end of the movie. Whatever it was, she would only do it if Ford guaranteed no one would ever find out what she said.

You know as many times as I have watched that movie I have always wondered what was said. Now as a writer you leave things unsaid for a reason, maybe this was one of those times where the person watching fills in the blanks as it should be.

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Mon Oct 26, 2015 4:27 pm You know as many times as I have watched that movie I have always wondered what was said.

According to her, John Ford told her to whisper whatever it was to John Wayne because Ford wanted a certain reaction out of him. She told Ford, "I can't be sayin' that to the Duke." Ford got her to do it promising it would always be a secret. One can imagine what it was but whatever it was by Wayne's reaction it must have been a doozy

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This summer, while in Ireland, we visited Ashford Castle, near Galway. Much of the inside scenes of the Quiet Man were filmed in the cottage of an Ashford gardener, located on the castle grounds. When we wandered near the cottage we read a sign explaining its' significance to the film and were greeted by a charming 70ish lady who asked if we wanted to see the inside of the cottage. She explained that this is the home she was raised in and when she was a young girl, her father consented to loan their cottage to John Ford for the inside scenes of the movie. She showed us the two rooms used in the film, both of which are little changed from the fifties, with the exception of several photographs of John Wayne and Maureen O'hara adorning the walls. After her father's death, she remained in the home and now, retired, enjoys giving impromptu tours of her childhood home and its' illustrious history. Though unplanned, our visit to the "Quiet Man House" was certainly a highlight of our trip to the most tourist friendly country I have ever visited.

John Wayne starred in a bunch of really good movies.

I tend not to talk about them because they are the archetypes of many stories we see now.

And that is a good thing because old movies live on in the future.

And just to illustrate -- the scene in "Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark" where Harrison Ford is dragged beneath a truck and climbs up the back is a scene from a western done with a stagecoach. I think it's from STAGECOACH but I'm not sure.

John Wayne's characters and the plots they used live on into modern versions.

I am not a big John Wayne fan, yet there are several in my collection that are worth having or watching.

Who Shot Liberty Valance - John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Lee Marvin and a cast of who's who.

The Quiet Man

Donovans Reef

The Cowboys

Big Jake

McLintock

Three of them have Maureen O'Hara in them and two have his sons.

Dave (imported) wrote: Mon Oct 26, 2015 8:10 pm And just to illustrate -- the scene in "Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark" where Harrison Ford is dragged beneath a truck and climbs up the back is a scene from a western done with a stagecoach. I think it's from STAGECOACH but I'm not sure.

In Raiders of the Lost Ark stunt coordinator Terry Leonard recreated the stunt done by Yakima Canutt in Stagecoach. Canutt had actually done the stunt in a 1937 movie but doing it in the Ford directed western was where it was best known.