Customer Reviews
Very good classic. Acceptable image quality. - By: Martin Ralston, 29 Apr 2008 
After watching this DVD I believe the comment rating it with only two stars on grounds of the poor video quality is not fair. Image & sound might not be the best possible ones - this is not a digital remastered picture -but they are fairly good.
On the other hand, it is an excellent feature with great actors.
A classic! - By: Vicki Hardy, 11 Jan 2008 
One of the few times you'll ever see John Wayne without a stetson & gun!
He & Maureen O'Hara & a superb supporting cast make this movie one to be revisited often.
Beautifully shot, full of humour, it's a joy to behold.
Cheap as chips, so buy it, settle back, & enjoy!
Nice Story, But .... - By: Mr. R. F. Shurvinton, 27 Aug 2007 
I remembered watching this film on TV when I was younger & thought at the low price of under £4 it would be a steal.
The storyline itself is amusing, & it's nice to see Mr Waynein something other than a stetson.
However the quality of the film transferred to dvd is very poor. It may be that the master tape they used was dodgy or inferior to the studios' master copy. This fact made me rate what is a rather amusing story a lowly 2 stars.
Perhaps there is a better quality version of this film available on dvd by another distributor.
If only if life was like this - By: Mr. J. M. Haines, 13 Jan 2007 The Quiet Man isin my opinion John Ford's greatest film, thus, one of the best films ever made. As well as the direction being perfect, this is also the case with the casting, the acting, the screen play, the music & the photography. It was the second time the world saw Ford's own personal & philosphical affinity with the very Un-British Gaelic community of the British Isles, but while Ford gritted his coal-blackened teeth to do the ( on balance ) more dour How Green was my Valley, here he revelsin the pure delights of a near blarnified tale setin an idyll that was always going to wow the American & worldwide market, perhaps more so than the rest of the British Isles. So, the story itself, Mother & child leave Ireland to go the USA, mother fills son's head with nostalgic tales of the village of his birth, boy grows up, becomes a professional boxer, kills a man during a bout, leaves the ring behind to return to Ireland, falls for the red haired beauty with temper to match. Hereonin, old & modern clash & this sets up the bulk of the remainder of the film. The screen play for this film was gleaned from a series of short stories, The Green Rushes, by Maurice Walsh, which had a more at times darker back drop of the infamous & ugly battle between the original IRA & the much reviled Black & Tans. Thankfully, Ford only allowed the briefest of undertones of thisin the film, & even then such references are more comic than sinister. There are many, many scenes & lines of dialogue which people recall again & again, here's my favourite. The local matchmaker / chaperon, played by Barry Fitzgerald, calls on Maureen O'Hara's character, he helps himself to an over generous glass of whiskey, & an alarmed Maureen O'Hara asks 'would you like water with that whiskey?' the reply? 'When I drink water I drink water, when I drink whiskey I drink whiskey'. And one more which is missed by many, really. The local widow ( or Minister's wife, can't remmeber now! )indulgesin a gentle act of mockery / sarcasm when she says to John Waynes' character after refurbishing the cottage of his childhood, ' Who but an American would have thought of Emerald Green for a door.' My own affinity with this film comes from the days, not that long ago really, before cable TV, internet or even 24 hour telly. The Quiet Man strongly featured on Christmas film listings, especially on Christmas Eve. Watching this with the fire blaring, the front room lit only by the Christmas Tree lights which then reflected on the streamers, made Christmases even more special. There is only one downside, it is a tad long, I'm sure it could have been chopped by 20 minutes or so without loss of quality or impact, but, a very, very minor quibble. Finally as someone who has no time for Westerns, I wish Mr Ford had never heard of them, if he had not, he may have been able to knock out other films inspired by his own Gaelic roots? Maybe he did one of those strict daddy -boy crying because his dog's dead - Scottish films, but I'm not sure.
here's a good stick to beat the lovely lady with - By: Ragged Clown, 25 Sep 2006 cracking movie - beautifully shot, well acted, well scripted & dated onlyin a good way. in all, it's a top drawer wet sunday afternoon movie. plenty soppy enough for the soppy among you, & at the time, the most violent movie ever made (there's a fistfight - a long one). also, a lot of the cast, including the wonderful micheleen flynn can be found putting on dreadful welsh accentsin 'how green was my valley'...
