Rent The Quiet Woman (1951)
3.0 of 5 from 51 ratings
1h 11min
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- Synopsis:
- You can run from your past, but it will always catch up with you. Jane Hylton stars as a woman whose fresh start is threatened when her jailbird ex-husband arrives on her doorstep. Jane Foster, the former wife of a criminal moves to a coastal town and takes over the running of a bar known as 'The Quiet Woman'. Initially she's outraged when she learns that the previous owner had allowed an amiable local artist, and part-time smuggler, Duncan McLeod (Derek Bond) to use the inn as a base. In spite of her resentment she becomes romantically involved with him. Problems arise when McLeod's old flame arrives on the scene. Jealous of Jane she taunts her about her past, and threatens to expose her.
- Actors:
- Derek Bond, Jane Hylton, Dora Bryan, Michael Balfour, John Horsley, Harry Towb, Dianne Foster, Peter Madren, Michael Logan
- Directors:
- John Gilling
- Producers:
- Robert Baker, Monty Berman
- Writers:
- Ruth Adam, John Gilling
- Studio:
- Simply Media
- Genres:
- Classics, Thrillers
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Ham on Rye - The Quiet Woman review by CH
Little-known as this film now is, chances are that Paul McCartney has watched it closely. This might appear an unlikely assertion but one of its East Sussex locations is the building which has since become his recording studio.
What with that fringe of desolate Romney Marsh and the towns of Winchelsea, Rye and Hastings, here is so sparsely populated an area that it suits the smuggling racket. One must wonder, though, how the eponymous pub which provided storage did any regular business. The premises have now been bought by Jane Hylton who brings along trusty employee Dora Bryan, whose boice could be heard through any fog.
Artists have to make a living; even so, it is surprising that Derek Bond combines his easel with another wooden structure: the cross-channel boat which brings the contraband ashore. Jane Hylton will have no truck with this but that does not prevent her from feeling something for him in the slipstream of leaving a husband who is in gaol.
This twin triangle - combined with a potentially atmospheric setting and an strong element of female jealousy - could be the stuff of Sussex noir but the pace does not become enough to make the real and metaphorical windmill turn.. Much of the acting is stiff, what one might call ham on Rye
The area, though, is still sufficient unto itself. Could a film crew return there with a more potent script?
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