Well, all of my family love this film, not only for the reason I shall reveal later but because, it really is a fantastic, well shot, lovely colour and produced piece of art/history. My claim to fame, well, it's my dear departed fathers claim is, he was in the "fight scene"by the corner of the "pub", which was actually a shop. But first, my dear Mother use to tell us, I'm the youngest of 6 boys and a sister, that, when the film crew came to West of Ireland, my mother, who was lovely young woman had her picture taken with one of her sisters, arm in arm with John Wayne, she would go on about this and I vaguely remember seeing the small en-print as they were called in them days, I think my sister has the photo but, what a photo. The main reason for my letter is my Dad, Frank, would tell us kids about the film etc, shot in Cong, and say, "oh yes, I was in that filim". But, with today's technology, we have the DVD and sure enough, you can stop-start the film and hold the still picture, and yes, he's in a couple of shots, just peering round the back of someone, while Wayne and the wonderful Victor McLaglen were knocking bits out of each other. We lived in GALWAY, and my dad use to deliver goods ( I think) to all over West of Ireland and he was there on the day of this shoot. Years later, my wife and I and my Brother John, at various occasions, visited Cong and walked the ruined Abby and bridge etc, but, our old Dad, well, when we first saw the DVD era film and stopped the action, and saw my Dad, it was such a shock because I am, the image of him, he was maybe late 20s then and it was just like looking at myself. All in all, a great film, great locations and a good story.
Review of The Quiet Man
