As part of our Film Classic series we are proud to present the John Ford 1952 masterpiece that received 7 Academy Award Nominations and the film earned Ford his 4th and last Oscar for Best Director establishing a record which is still unbeaten. The filming of The Quiet Man was the culmination of a dream by John Ford to make an Irish picture in Ireland. He bought the rights to the story over a decade before and peddled it to every studio in Hollywood and was turned down. “The Quiet Man” is an Irish village version of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew,” the tamer being an ex-pugilist Sean Thornton (John Wayne) retired to the land of his fathers where he purchases “that little place across the brook, that humble cottage.” But no sooner does he arrives on a soft spring morning than he falls in love with Mary Kate (Maureen O’Hara). A great illustration of romance. The interaction between Wayne and Maureen O’Hara is magical and hard to beat. In our opinion the roles played by both John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara are among the best in their careers. Other classic performances are turned in by Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond and Barry Fitzgerald. Don’t miss it.