It was 72 years ago this week that The Quiet Man hits US cinemas. John Wayne, who later starred in a D-Day movie, teamed up with director collaborator John Ford once again for the Oscar-winning classic.

Considered by the filmmaker to be his sexiest movie, the plot saw Duke’s retired boxer Sean Thornton making a pilgrimage to his home village in Ireland to claim his family estate during the 1920s.

In Ireland, Wayne’s character met his match with Maureen O’Hara’s Mary Kate Danaher and…