Group 1-181
There is a 3/8" vertical tear along the front lower spine edge, plus a 1/4" vertical tear along the rear lower spine edge -- plus multiple creases across both front & rear covers, with wear & chipping to edges & corners, plus scratches, page corner folds, indentations, rub-wear, lesser tears, browning pages, soiling etc -- spine leans very slightly to left, with slight very slight bowing, plus 1 top to bottom crease -- penciled price at front right inside cover -- overall condition Good Minus
The film director JOHN FORD first read the short story "THE QUIET MAN" in the magazine THE SATURDAY EVENING POST in 1933, and bought the movie rights from MAURICE WALSH shortly thereafter for the princely sum of $10.00 (the author was paid another $3750.00 when the movie was produced). A few years later, MAURICE WALSH expanded upon several of the other themes suggested within his tale, from which arose the novel GREEN RUSHES in 1935. Jump ahead to 1950, and JOHN FORD wanted to film a movie version of THE QUIET MAN, featuring the actors JOHN WAYNE and MAUREEN O'HARA; but Ford was working with Republic Pictures at the time, and the film that Ford had in mind would be a severe departure for Republic, whose output was largely action & adventure films. So Republic Pictures made a deal with JOHN FORD: Ford would produce another western (RIO GRANDE) with JOHN WAYNE and MAUREEN O'HARA, and Republic Pictures would finance Ford's vision of THE QUIET MAN -- to be filmed on location in Ireland, with a largely Irish cast, and in Technicolor -- all of which were seriously expensive deviations for Republic Pictures, which mostly produced b&w movies, filmed in the USA with American actors. But that wily old "JOHN FORD luck" struck again -- and THE QUIET MAN won two Academy Awards, including JOHN FORD's fourth Oscar for Best Director.
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