The Quiet Man
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| Directed by | John Ford |
| Screenplay by | Frank S. Nugent |
| Based on | ”The Quiet Man” 1933 story in Saturday Evening Post by Maurice Walsh |
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| Cinematography | Winton C. Hoch |
| Edited by | Jack Murray |
| Music by | Victor Young |
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| Distributed by | Republic Pictures |
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Running time | 129 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | English Irish |
| Budget | $1.75 million or $1,698,254 |
| Box office | $3.8 million (rentals) |
The Quiet Man is a 1952 American romantic comedy drama film directed and produced by John Ford, and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Shields and Ward Bond. The screenplay by Frank S. Nugent was based on a 1933 Saturday Evening Post short story of the same name by Irish author Maurice Walsh, later published as part of a collection titled The Green Rushes. The film features Winton Hoch's lush photography of the Irish countryside and a long, climactic, semi-comic fist fight.
The film was an official selection of the 1952 Venice Film Festival. John Ford won the Academy Award for Best Director, his fourth, and Winton Hoch won for Best Cinematography. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".