The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.

The Quiet Man

1952

English

7.7

♡ 26

91%

John Ford Director

Maureen O'Hara as Mary Kate Danaher

Barry Fitzgerald as Michaleen Oge Flynn

Sean McClory as Owen Glynn

Mildred Natwick as The Widow Sarah Tillane

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

The Redhead from Wyoming

1953

English

6.1

♡ 6

50%

Lee Sholem Director

Harold Goodwin as Chet's Henchman

Gregg Palmer as Hal Jessup

Maureen O'Hara as Kate Maxwell

Jack Kelly as Sandy

A saloonkeeper sides with the sheriff for justice after she's framed for rustling.

Miracle on 34th Street

1947

English

7.9

♡ 23

96%

macy's thanksgiving day parade

parent child relationship

George Seaton Director

John Roy as Court Officer Bearing Mail

Robert Gist as Department Store Window Dresser

Maureen O'Hara as Doris Walker

Thelma Ritter as Peter's Mother

Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.

Sentimental Journey

1946

English

6.3

♡ 5

33%

Drama

heart attack

orphan

Walter Lang Director

William Haade as Bus Driver

Mary Field as Chaperon

Maureen O'Hara as Julie Beck / Weatherly

Connie Marshall as Mehitabel 'Hitty' Weatherly

An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.

This Land Is Mine

1943

English

7.5

♡ 19

71%

Jean Renoir Director

Casey Johnson as Boy

Trevor Bardette as Courtroom Guard Who Brings Albert's Notes

Maureen O'Hara as Louise Martin

Kent Smith as Paul Martin

Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.

Sinbad, the Sailor

1947

English

6.1

♡ 5

Richard Wallace Director

Harry Harvey as Crier at Execution

Walter Slezak as Melik

Louis Jean Heydt as Mercenary

Maureen O'Hara as Shireen

Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexander the Great. His first stop is the port of Basra, where his ship is seized and scheduled for auction. In his attempt to win it back, he befriends beautiful concubine Shireen. But when her master, the nefarious Emir, calls her back to duty, Sinbad must interrupt his adventure to save the "Jewel of Persia."

The Spanish Main

1945

English

6.3

♡ 3

50%

Frank Borzage Director

Barton MacLane as Capt. Benjamin Black

Maureen O'Hara as Contessa Francesca

Walter Slezak as Don Juan Alvarado

Nancy Gates as Lupita

Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ship in which Contessa Francesca, daughter of a Mexican noble, is traveling on her way to marry Alvarado, whom she has never seen. Laurent's pirates capture the ship and Francesca, in order to save another ship, gives her hand-in-marriage to Laurent, who sails her to the pirate hideout. This irks his jealous pirate comrades Anne Bonney and Captain Benjamin Black. They overpower Laurent and send Francesca to Alvarado, and then Mario du Billar, a trusted right-hand man, makes a deal to deliver Laurent to Alvarado.

Dreaming the Quiet Man

2010

Irish

7.5

♡ 4

Action

Documentary

filmmaking

Sé Merry Doyle Director

Maureen O'Hara as Herself

Martin Scorsese as Himself

Gabriel Byrne as Himself

Peter Bogdanovich as Himself

Dreaming the Quiet Man’ includes interviews with aficionados of Ford like, Martin, Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovicz, Jim Sheridan, William Dowling, and Joe McBride. There is mesmeric archive and rare photographs of the making of the film. The main location of the documentary is Ford’s ancestral homeland of Connemara, on the west coat of Ireland, where his parents were born. We meet Ford’s cousins, the Feeney’s who tell the story of Ford’s parent’s departure from Ireland after the Great Famine and the young Ford’s return to Ireland in 1922 to visit his cousins the Thornton’s and saw their house being burned down by the infamous Black and Tans. Ford, under the pretense of scouting locations for a movie, gave money to the IRA. We travel to Portland Maine where Ford grew up and went on to become a director in the first bloom of Hollywood. The boy made it good but Ireland was always on his mind.

The Deadly Companions

1961

English

6.0

♡ 5

Sam Peckinpah Director

Chuck Hayward as Card Sharp

Maureen O'Hara as Kit Tildon

Chill Wills as Turk

Brian Keith as Yellowleg

Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.

The Parent Trap

1961

English

7.2

♡ 18

89%

twins separated at birth

David Swift Director

Maureen O'Hara as Maggie McKendrick

Irene Tedrow as Miss Lockness - the Housekeeper

Brian Keith as Mitch Evers

Frank De Vol as Mr. Eaglewood

Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.

The Christmas Box

1995

English

7.0

♡ 3

67%

Marcus Cole Director

Robert Curtis Brown as George

Maureen O'Hara as Mrs. Mary Parkin

Richard Thomas as Richard Evans

Michael Ensign as Stephen Hoover

A ski-shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and his daughter in to an estate as live-in help for an elderly widow. While struggling to balance his career and family life, he has recurring dreams about an angel.