What is The Quiet Man / How Green Was My Valley about?

THE QUIET MAN, 1952, Paramount, 129 min. Dir. John Ford. John Wayne is the titular quiet man, a former boxer returning home to his Irish birthplace to fall in love with feisty Maureen O’Hara and butt heads with her big brother, Victor McLaglen. HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, 1941, 20th Century Fox, 118 min. Director John Ford’s beautiful, heartbreaking account of the plight of a Welsh coal-mining family circa turn-of-the-20th-century won five Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Donald Crisp as the stern but loving patriarch), Art Direction and Cinematography. Seen through the eyes of Crisp’s young son (Roddy McDowall), we watch as his older brothers (John Loder, Patric Knowles, et al.) are split apart by economic hard times as well as labor strife, and his older sister (Maureen O’Hara) foregoes the mutual love she shares with poor minister Walter Pidgeon to join in a rich but loveless marriage.

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What is The Quiet Man / How Green Was My Valley about?: THE QUIET MAN, 1952, Paramount, 129 min. Dir. John Ford. John Wayne is the titular quiet man, a former boxer returning home to his Irish birthplace to fall in love with feisty Maureen O’Hara and butt heads with her big brother, Victor McLaglen.
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, 1941, 20th Century Fox, 118 min. Director John Ford’s beautiful, heartbreaking account of the plight of a Welsh coal-mining family circa turn-of-the-20th-century won five Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Donald Crisp as the stern but loving patriarch), Art Direction and Cinematography. Seen through the eyes of Crisp’s young son (Roddy McDowall), we watch as his older brothers (John Loder, Patric Knowles, et al.) are split apart by economic hard times as well as labor strife, and his older sister (Maureen O’Hara) foregoes the mutual love she shares with poor minister Walter Pidgeon to join in a rich but loveless marriage.