When St. Patrick’s Day comes around, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) usually shows some movies with Ireland or Irish people in general. John Ford’s classic The Quiet Man is always the main feature at 8pm Eastern time, and the last film shown, usually around 11:30pm Pacific time is David Lean’s epic Ryan’s Daughter.
DirecTV’s guide lists the film with this short synopsis:
A teacher's wife has an affair with a British soldier in 1916 Northern Ireland.
Most of this sentence is…

The first time I saw this movie was in 1997 or 1998 on AMC (when AMC was American Movie Classics, boy that was a long time ago) and it also was shown on Bravo (when they showed plays and movies, also a long time ago). Then the movie was 30 years old, but the satire and dark comic elements worked very well with me. That and this movie along with the Flint movies made me a fan of James Coburn,…

So let's get the historical accuracies out of the way first.
1. The Queen Mary was a British ship, so it would have been painted grey.
2. The nurses all seem to have their hairstyles based on Veronica Lake, even though she didn’t become a Hollywood star until 1942, not 1940.
3. Rafe couldn’t have been ordered to go to England and fight there. We weren’t at war with at that time. Rafe would have had to resign or…

I’ve seen this film at least 15 times in my life, since I come from a military family (father, mother [met and married while in the Army] brother [Navy], and maternal grandfather [Navy at the very end of WWII]). It may seem a little weird to watch a movie about one of America’s biggest tragedies, but people watch Cameron’s Titanic multiple times, so there.
This time I watched it after watching a video by an Australian YouTube called Stem Fine,…