The Quiet Man was adapted to the screen and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz in 1957. The movie starred, appropriately, Audie Murphy, as the American, and Michael Redgrave as Fowler. The film follows the novel at first, but then departs, making the movie less anti-American: as the New York Times review expressed it, "It is evident that Joseph L. Mankiewicz has a better opinion of.....
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