John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
Synopsis
Dreaming the Quiet Manâ 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 Fordâs ancestral homeland of Connemara, on the west coat of Ireland, where his parents were born. We meet Fordâs cousins, the Feeneyâs who tell the story of Fordâs parentâs departure from Ireland after the Great Famine and the young Fordâs return to Ireland in 1922 to visit his cousins the Thorntonâs 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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