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2	* TheCastShowoff: Creator/MaureenOHara did her own singing.
3	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Both Creator/JohnWayne and Creator/MaureenOHara named this as one of their favourite roles. It was also Creator/JohnFord's favourite film of his own, as he considered it his sexiest picture.
4	* DawsonCasting:
5	** Creator/JohnWayne was 44 when this film was made, although his character Sean Thornton was supposed to be 35.
6	** Victor [=McLaglen=] was 65 at the time. Many felt he should have played Creator/MaureenOHara's father (31) instead of her brother.
7	* DeletedScene: Several scenes were shot that never appeared in the movie:
8	** Mary speaking in Gaelic to greet Sean for the first time.
9	** A scene where Father Lonergan and Michaleen discuss betting on horses (deemed offensive because he is a priest)
10	** Sean's first scene on the train, where he speaks to a mother and her child gives him an apple (in the existing opening scene, Wayne deboards the train holding the apple and thanks the unseen child).
11	* DirectedByCastmember: Creator/JohnWayne directed the horse racing sequence while Creator/JohnFord was ill.
12	* FakeIrish: Victor [=McLaglen=] was English, and several of the supporting actors were American. This even applies to Sean, as he was born in Ireland, but Creator/JohnWayne was clearly not.
13	* NoStuntDouble: Creator/JohnWayne really dragged Creator/MaureenOHara through the mud. She got bruised by the rough terrain.
14	* OnSetInjury: Maureen O'Hara broke her hand slapping John Wayne during the first cottage scene, since he unexpectedly blocked the blow with his hand. Because it was filmed sequentially, she had to spend the rest of the shoot with a broken hand, without a cast on.
15	* OneForTheMoneyOneForTheArt: Creator/JohnFord had desperately wanted to make this film for years, but had trouble finding a studio to back it. He finally made a deal with Republic Pictures -- which specialized in Westerns -- to film a Western for them in exchange for their VERY reluctant backing on ''The Quiet Man''. The Western Ford made was ''Film/RioGrande''; ''The Quiet Man'' went on to become Republic's biggest-ever box office hit, and the studio's ONLY movie ever to earn a Best Picture UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination. And Ford won his fourth Best Director award for this.
16	* ProductionPosse: All over the place. Creator/JohnFord worked with a regular set of actors in nearly every movie he made. Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, and Victor [=McLaglen=] are the more notable names.
17	* RealLifeRelative:
18	** Town elder Dan Tobin -- the grizzled, bearded fellow who jumps up from his deathbed once he hears the epic donnybrook -- was played by John Ford's brother Francis Ford. The story has it they had not spoken to each other in years, but John asked Francis to star in this film and they were very amicable toward each other during production. Francis died a year later.
19	** Creator/MaureenOHara's younger brothers Charles and James Fitzsimons play Hugh Forbes and Father Paul, respectively.
20	** Barry Fitzgerald's brother, Arthur Shields, plays the Rev. Mr. Playfair.
21	** All four of Creator/JohnWayne's children are sitting on the cart with Creator/MaureenOHara during the horse race scene.
22	* TheRedStapler: The town of Cong in County Mayo where the movie was filmed is now a major Irish tourist attraction because of the movie. The local pub hosts daily re-runs of the film.
23	* ThrowItIn: At the end of the film, Mary Kate whispers something into Creator/JohnWayne's ear. It was an unscripted bit of dialogue that Creator/JohnFord insisted O'Hara say to Wayne in order to [[EnforcedMethodActing get an unexpected reaction]] on Wayne's part. The three were the only ones who know what was whispered -- and with O'Hara's passing in 2015, nobody will ever know for certain what it was.
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27	* CaliforniaDoubling: The live-action cutscenes are supposed to be in New York, but were actually filmed in Bulgaria. A giveaway is that the larger American license plates have been awkwardly placed over the narrower European plates on the cars.
28	* CreatorKiller: ''The Quiet Man'' proved to be this for Human Head Studios. The 2010's were a horrible decade for the studio, with them being put in a really bad position ever since Creator/{{Bethesda}} unceremoniously canceled their sequel to ''[[VideoGame/Prey2006 Prey]]'' in 2014, and not counting their additional collaborations on games that ended up not exactly being successes in themselves [[note]]Like Splash Damage's ''VideoGame/{{Brink}}'' and Trion Worlds' ''VideoGame/{{Defiance}}''[[/note]], ''The Quiet Man'' ended up being the studio's first game they've released and made mostly by themselves ''in twelve years since VideoGame/Prey2006''. The studio attempted to turn things around by collaborating with Kensei Fujinaga from Creator/SquareEnix to create an ambitious beat-em-up/FMV combination that would not be reliant on sound. Unfortunately, what resulted was a terribly made mess with regards in gameplay, story, and presentation, that ended up as one of the worst reviewed games of 2018. The game's commercial and critical failure, combined with TroubledProduction for ''VideoGame/{{Rune}}'''s sequel, led to the studio's closure. In an ironic twist considering the involvement of a company that screwed over their previous project, Creator/{{Bethesda}} [[https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/new-bethesda-studio-formed-as-human-head-studios-closes/ created a new studio in Madison and gave everyone at Human Head a position there.]]

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