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The Quiet Man Turns Fifty A memorable romantic encounter from John Ford s 1952 Irish comedy-drama The Quiet Man, starring John Wayne and Maureen O Hara. A memorable romantic encounter from John Ford s 1952 Irish comedy-drama The Quiet Man, starring John Wayne and Maureen O Hara. By Joseph McBride, Contributor This year marks fiftieth anniversary of John Ford’s The Quiet Man, the favorite movie of many Irish Americans. The native Irish tend to see it with more ambivalence, yet the readers of the Irish Times in 1996 voted it the greatest Irish movie ever made. The beguiling comedy-drama won Ford his fourth Academy Award as best director, as well as bringing Oscars to cinematographers Winton C. Hoch and Archie Stout for their spectacular Technicolor photography of rural Ireland. Based on a short story by Maurice Walsh that Ford had been wanting to film since the 1930s,