oscaralbert Review of The Making of 'The Quiet Man'

The Making of 'The Quiet Man' (1992 Video)

The brains behind most of Hollywood's best-loved movies . . .

[7/10 · 3 March 2016]

. . . were starved or snuffed out by THE QUIET MAN's UNHOLY THREE trio, made up of director John Ford, star John Wayne, and QUIET MAN's narrator, Ward Bond. THE QUIET MAN itself is no exception to this scorched earth policy. This movie is based upon a story penned by Maurice Walsh for his THE GREEN RUSHES short story collection, we're informed here by THE MAKING OF THE QUIET MAN. Ford, being from Ireland, wanted to buy this plot for one of his future cinematic outings, because no events so original had ever crossed the imagination of Sean O'Feeney (as John Ford was called, before he renamed himself after the infamous American Racist Big Shot who popularized automobiles, ironically a fellow Wolverine to the crackpot that Ford's biggest star--Marion Mitchell Morrison--renamed himself after, General "Mad" A. Wayne, or Duke-the-family-mutt Wayne). But since both Ford and Wayne hated anyone who could put pen to paper, favoring an illiterate America, neither was willing to make any writer's life comfortable. So how much do you suspect Ford paid Mr. Walsh for the QUIET MAN story? This MAKING OF reveals it was an insulting grand sum of ten bucks--enough to buy one beer at the stadium, or maybe a bottle of over-the-counter pain-killers!