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FINE: "The Quiet Man." ; FAIR: ‘The Prisoner of Zenda."
her right through the door of Pat Cohan’s pub. Ford has coaxed some fine work from his actors and Barry Fitzgerald is given plenty "of scope for his comic talents without being allowed to overplay his hand. Good performances are also given by Ward Bond as a salmon-fishing priest and Arthur Shields as the Anglican vicar, Mr, Playfair. The Quiet Man reveals itself in its undertones to be-a variation on the Homeric theme of the homecoming of Odysseus and his contest for Penelope. The film has been made with the bold sweep of Ford’s best work, with less care for detail than for the overall mood, the long surging rhythms of the action, the feeling of place and identity with the soil.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 19
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