Directed by John Ford.
With John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Barry Fitzgerald
US 1952, 35mm, color, 129 min.
Print courtesy of the UCLA Film and Television Archive
John Ford presents an idealized portrait of a mythical
rural Ireland, where the key visual elements are the
emerald green grass and the fiery red hair of Maureen
O'Hara. O'Hara plays Mary Kate Danaher, the headstrong
colleen courted by American Sean Thornton
(Wayne), a disgraced boxer who has come to Ireland in
search of his roots. The film's cinematographer is
Winton C. Hoch, who shot several of Ford's color films,
including The Searchers (1956) and She Wore a Yellow
Ribbon (1949), for which he won an Oscar. Little
remembered today, Hoch is one of the Hollywood
cinematographers most closely associated with
Technicolor. Straight out of Cal Tech, he began his career
working for Technicolor, where he helped invent the 3-
strip process. From there he went to work as a director
of photography in Hollywood, without ever having shot a
black-and-white feature. Print courtesy of UCLA Film and Television Archive.
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