The Quiet Man
I was stunned by the beauty, Maureen O'Hara, when I saw her as Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame way back when (no, not 1939). I was just stunned as to how poor her performance was in this movie.
My opinion of O'Hare theatrical know-how remains mixed at best. It's not just that her actions usually consists of looking like ice and fire -
it is true, then that is probably more complicated than you might think. But I want to say that the main problem for those trying to assess the possibility of its actions is that most of O'Hara was crap work. 20th Century Fox and RKO contract player wanted them to "act" is beautiful, that is around him.
And beautiful it is "act" in films (most of them are not very good), such as The Fallen Sparrow, Spanish Main, and Sinbad the Sailor, everything was shown earlier today in traditional Chinese medicine.
Now, in the songs of John Ford to Old Ireland, quiet man who, in addition to beautiful, O'Hara also displays a nice comic touch. Her eyes at the end of an endless kick John Wayne Victor McLaglen Festival is priceless
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Quiet Man, I might add that the first and only Republic Pictures production was nominated for an Oscar for best film. He lost the Oscar Cecil B. DeMille 's The Greatest Show on Earth - when he would have lost to Fred Zinnemann in High Noon instead.
John Ford did take home the best director Oscar, his (record) in the fourth turn. McLaglen was named to the Best Actor category, shamelessly devouring almost all of Irish green.
Also today: Ford's great-looking but slow Western Rio Grande (1950), another pairing Wayne O'Hara, Carol Reed Our Man in Havana (1960), co-starring Alec Guinness, and which has both fans and critics ( I found it viewed) and George Sherman's Big Jake (1971), it is quite acceptable Wayne West O'Hare, which has a brief supporting role.
Best of all: underrated King Henry a "black swan" (1942), a very pleasant good against the bad pirate pirate romp (screenwriter Ben Hecht and Seton I. Miller from the novel by Rafael Sabatini in) in which O'Hara has a high level of competition on the "acting beautiful "separation from the leading man Tyrone Power, whom O'Hara calls" deadly beautiful "in his autobiography (with John Nicoletti).
If you have not seen a black swan, do not miss it. If you have, well, watch it again.
Addendum: I'm currently reading Scaramouche Sabatini in. This is a witty, wonderfully subversive novel. It is strongly recommended. 1923 Rex Ingram's film version of Ramon Novarro is much closer to the original than the 1952 adaptation of George Sidney Starring Stewart Granger.
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