Tag Archives: the Quiet Man

St. Patrick’s Day Films 2024

Posted on March 17, 2024 by laurarachel4

 Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) Rated R Bridget Jones is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.  Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) Rated R After finding love, … Continue reading →

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Top Irish Films 2022

Posted on March 17, 2022 by laurarachel4

 Far and Away (1992) Rated PG-13 A young Irish couple flee to the States, but subsequently struggle to obtain land and prosper freely. Starring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson  Falling for a Dancer (1998) Rated UR After a casual … Continue reading →

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St. Patrick Day Films 2016

Posted on March 17, 2016 by laurarachel4

 Titanic (1997) Rated PG-13 A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind, but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.  An American Tail (1986) Rated G While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated … Continue reading →

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Maureen O’Hara (1920-2015)

Posted on October 24, 2015 by laurarachel4

(1920-2015)  The Quiet Man (1952) Rated NR A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love.  Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Rated NR When a nice old man who claims to be … Continue reading →

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John Ford

Posted on May 22, 2012 by laurarachel4

 The Informer (1935) Rated NR Victor McLaglen delivers a harrowing performance as Gypo Nolan, a roistering brute during Ireland’s 1922 Sinn Fein uprising, who fingers friend Frankie McPhillip to collect a reward, then promptly fritters away the money on one night of revelry. … Continue reading →

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Classics Worth Watching

Posted on May 22, 2010 by laurarachel4

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Rated NR Two dotty spinsters with a peculiar avocation: helping lonely old gents by poisoning them and burying them in the cellar. But the jig is up when the ladies’ newlywed nephew, Mortimer Brewster, discovers … Continue reading →

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