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John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man

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.

Credits

John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man Cast

Name Character
Martin Scorsese He was 69, now 81 years old as Himself
Gabriel Byrne He was 62, now 73 years old as Narrator
Peter Bogdanovich He was 72, now 84 years old as Himself
Maureen O'Hara She was 91, 95 years old when she died as Herself
Jim Sheridan He was 63, now 75 years old as Himself

John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man Crew

Name Department
Sé Merry Doyle as Director. Directing
Stephan Walsh as Writer. Writing
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John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man (11 years)

  • Release day: Friday, June 15, 2012
  • Runtime: 92 minutes