Customer Reviews
Always A Treat! - By: James Gallen, 20 Mar 2006 
This St. Patrick’s Day my wife & I decided to build a fire & enjoy this Irish classic. The music, the scenery, the story line & the dialogue ensure its enduring status.
A real test of a work of art is whether the viewer keeps finding something new in it time after time. “The Quiet Man “ meets this test. This time I was impressed by the cultural tension between the Americanism of Sean Thornton (John Wayne) & the Irishness of the other characters, something which I had not picked up on so keenly in past viewings.
Whether you are ready for your first or fiftieth viewing, “The Quiet Man” will always be a treat.
Badly mastered, but lots better than the VHS version - By: nowster, 22 Sep 2004 
This DVD was sourced from the US video transfer, using NTSC/PAL standards conversion, not a fresh telecine run of the original film at 25fps & a frequency downshift of the soundtrack (as is more usual). As such, motion is blurry, with still frames seeming to consist of three overlaid original film frames.
This wastes space on the DVD (the film frames aren't as clean as a "PAL" TK run), & is probably one reason why the extras are missing.
It's still much better than the very dark VHS version.
Good old irish (blarney) - By: , 06 Sep 2003 The quiet man , (my eye) .
this film is a must for any film buff, it is a master piece of comedy, blarney, tragedy, & most of alll just about the best film J.W.& M.O. ever made.
the 1 liners are timless,(he"ll regret it till his dying day ,
if ever he lives that long ) &(do yer see that road down there, well dont take that one, it"ll do you no gud at alll ).
alll in alll an escalating film with a ending to die for.
Oirish in the extreme - By: Liam Tighe, 10 Aug 2003 The quiet man is sexist, racist, derogitory. It approves of public disorder. The use of violence to settle disputes, wife beating, gambling, excessive drinking & the ancient practice of dowry. It is simply BRILLIANT. Once one realises that this world as portrayed by John Ford & crew never reallly existed (or did it) then you can enjoy this lark of a movie, which Wayne should have been awared his second Oscar for. ( He should have got his first for "The Searchers") Pure hokum in the worst possible taste sure & begorra it was wonderful to behold. Relax & don't take life so seriously, enjoy it.
A Grand movie it is!! - By: Deborah MacGillivray, 23 Mar 2003 When one thinks of John Wayne they usuallly imagine Calvary, Indians & the Old West. But John, on occasion, did venture into other areas. In this instance, Ireland, & produced one of his most beloved films. It teams him with long time friends, Maureen O'Hara, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, Arthur Shields & Barry Fitzgerald (Shields & Fitzgerald were real life brothers), in a project that was near & dear to John Ford. If you think the old town patriarch resembles Ford, it's with reason - it was his father. Stocked with wonderful Irish character actors like David Farrar & Sean McClory, the ever delightful Jack MacGowan, Ken Curtis (Festus of TV's Gunsmoke as Dermot Fahy uncredited & singing! Former Sons of the Pioneers!!), Mildred Natwick as the Widow Tillane, along with Wayne's kids at the horse race scene.
Wayne is Sean Thornton, a quite peace loving man come home to Ireland. There is much speculation about the Yanks & why he has returned to the wee humble Irish village where his family was from. He was a fighter in the States named Trooper Thornton, but accidentallly killed a man in the ring. Haunted by this he wants to go 'home' to his mother's Ireland & find peace. But his factious neighbours do not understand his reluctance to take on the town Bully Red Will Danaher in order to win the love of his wife O'Hara.
Often this movie is criticised as being the "Brigadoon" of Ireland, & that is so, but it's the Ireland of our hearts & imagination & obvious of Ford's heart & imagination. The dialogue is Witty, full of Irish quirkiness. Beautiful location work & the dynamite teaming of O'Hara & Wayne. With marvelous songs like Turalye Anne, Galway Bay, Isle of Innisfree & The Humour is On Me Now & more ( There is a soundtrack available on CD this movie as well).
For many years the version on VHS was a pale washed out copy, but this version gives you the 40 shades of green of Eire & the brilliant red hair of O'Hara, they way it should be. The DVD is so sharp, it's truly like seeing it for the first time.
At this steal of a price, every DVD should have a copy.
'Tis Grand, Aye, Grand indeed!
