50s Westerns-Related DVD News #101: The Quiet Man (1952).

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50s Westerns-Related DVD News #101: The Quiet Man (1952).

October 29, 2012 by Toby

Coming to Blu-ray and DVD from Olive Films, January 22, 2013 — John Ford’s The Quite Man (1952).

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Posted in 1952, DVD reviews, releases, TV, etc., John Ford, John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Olive Films | 5 Comments

5 Responses

on October 29, 2012 at 3:10 pm | Reply hcb

We’ve never seen a decent DVD of the movie. Hope this changes that. As irksome as Olive Films has been for me, they’d have my gratitude for a beautiful digital version of the picture.
on October 30, 2012 at 3:17 am | Reply Johnny Guitar

That’s the question of the year, what kind of quality will this disc have? Is it going to be merely a re-release of the same quality version that’s out there now? Or is this a fully restored version? Also funny thing they do with the color, in my Quiet Man poster from the original laser disc release (it’s up on my wall) the exact same drawing of Duke & Maureen tugging at each other has Duke in a green tie & Maureen in a very low buttoned green shirt and a red dress, it is also a very much thinner Maureen in the poster than in the rather wide looking Maureen on the new disc cover. Obvious tampering with the art work in either my old poster or on this new DVD cover.
on October 30, 2012 at 3:39 am | Reply Johnny Guitar

Well, after looking around I see that this new release is supposed to be “fully restored”, see this from Classic Flix in their announcement details for more information.
http://www.classicflix.com/quiet-60th-anniversary-special-edition-p-545.html
on October 30, 2012 at 2:26 pm | Reply Paula

From an interview with Frank Tarzi, Olive Films’ Head of Acquisitions. (Read the full interview at http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=9202)

Q: What kind of work needs to be done?

A: Well a 3-strip Technicolor film like The Quiet Man needs special care. We’ve done a 4K scan off the original negative from the studio’s archives but that’s just the beginning. There’s a very complicated re-mastering process that needs to be done for a Technicolor film like this and we want to get it right.
on January 22, 2013 at 3:25 pm | Reply V.E.G.

Maureen O’Hara is the very last surviving member of the original cast of the Quiet Man.