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The Quiet Man

1952

A retired American boxer returns to the Irish village of his birth to reclaim his family's cottage and finds himself courting a fiery local woman, running headlong into her stubborn brother and the customs of the old country. John Ford's beloved romantic comedy.

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John Ford's hugely influential American outsider image of rural Ireland.

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