John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
7.4
Dreaming the Quiet Man’ includes interviews with aficionados of Ford like, Martin, Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovicz, Jim Sheridan, William Dowling, and Joe McBride. There is mesmeric archive and rare photographs of the making of the film. The main location of the documentary is Ford’s ancestral homeland of Connemara, on the west coat of Ireland, where his parents were born. We meet Ford’s cousins, the Feeney’s who tell the story of Ford’s parent’s departure from Ireland after the Great Famine and the young Ford’s return to Ireland in 1922 to visit his cousins the Thornton’s and saw their house being burned down by the infamous Black and Tans. Ford, under the pretense of scouting locations for a movie, gave money to the IRA. We travel to Portland Maine where Ford grew up and went on to become a director in the first bloom of Hollywood. The boy made it good but Ireland was always on his mind.
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Cast
5 people
Gabriel Byrne
Narrator
Known for
The Usual Suspects
Hereditary
Maureen O'Hara
Self
Known for
Miracle on 34th Street
The Quiet Man
Peter Bogdanovich
Self
Known for
The Sopranos
The Other Side of the Wind
Martin Scorsese
Self
Known for
Shark Tale
The Mandalorian and Grogu
Jim Sheridan
Self
Known for
Moll Flanders
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Sé Merry Doyle Director · Stephan Walsh Writer
First release June 15, 2012 · Produced in Ireland · Languages English, Irish
Production
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland
Production
Element Pictures
Production
Irish Film Board
Production
Ireland
Produced in
Languages
Original language
Irish
Spoken on screen
English · Irish
Release dates
Ireland · June 15, 2012
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
United Kingdom
July 9, 2012 · Theatrical
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