The Quiet Man is a 1952 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film. It was directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald. It was based on a 1933 Saturday Evening Post short story by Maurice Walsh. The film is notable for its lush photography of the Irish countryside and the long, climactic, semi-comic fist fight between Wayne and McLaglen. Set in 1920s Ireland, Sean Thornton , an Irish-born American from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania travels to Ireland to reclaim his family's farm in Innisfree. He meets and falls in love with the fiery... Mary Kate Danaher , the spinster sister of the bullying, loud-mouthed landowner Squire "Red" Will Danaher . Danaher, angry that Sean outbid him for the Thornton land adjacent to his property, initially refuses to sanction the marriage until several town locals, including the parish priest, conspire to trick him into believing that the wealthy Widow Tillane wants to marry him, but only if Mary Kate is no longer living in the house.
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