In the 1952 Oscar-winning classic, considered by director John Ford to be his sexiest movie, John Wayne’s retired boxer Sean Thornton makes a pilgrimage to his home village in 1920s Ireland to claim his family estate.

There he meets his match with Maureen O’Hara’s Mary Kate Danaher and her difficult brother Red, played by Victor McLaglen.

During The Quiet Man shoot in County Mayo and County Galway O’Hara suffered from a broken bone in her hand for much of production. In the scene where…